The Chaotic Immortal Wood Sect: Immortal Cultivation War - Chapter 42

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42. The Monks from Blood Extreme Mountain Villa Met in the Ruins

“Tch! As expected.”

Kang Hyeon, who had leaped through the passage that Lee Chil had opened at the auction hall, clicked his tongue with a displeased expression after moving through space.

Even though he had entered the passage together with Hwang In Deok, holding hands and exchanging spiritual energy to form a strong bond, In Deok was nowhere to be seen after entering the ruins.

However, Kang Hyeon immediately executed the solution he had prepared.

Wooooooong! Swahwat!

First, he summoned one of Trent’s branches and stuck it under a large rock nearby, then immediately opened the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror.

After entering inside, Kang Hyeon concentrated his consciousness again and began resonating with the Trent’s branch that In Deok possessed.

“Thank goodness. It seems there’s a powerful spatial distortion inside the ruins.”

Kang Hyeon muttered this while reopening the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror using In Deok’s Trent branch as a medium.

As soon as the entrance opened, In Deok entered the Mysterious Mirror.

“Wow, Hyeon!”

“Get away!”

In Deok spread his arms trying to embrace Kang Hyeon, but Kang Hyeon waved his hand with a cold expression.

And then.

“Why did you come in? I could have just gone out.”

He scolded In Deok like this.

“Ah, well…”

“Why? Did something happen?”

“Yeah, a monk who appeared to be at the Core Formation stage tried to kill me…”

“What? A Core Formation monk?”

“Right after entering the ruins and regaining consciousness, an enormous spiritual consciousness pressed down on me.”

“That was a Core Formation stage monk?”

“Yeah. And besides me, there were traces of two or three others who had already been dealt with. They were crushed…”

“So you jumped in as soon as the entrance opened? Well done! Yes, you did well.”

Kang Hyeon patted In Deok’s shoulder heavily.

To think such a thing had happened in that short time.

Kang Hyeon felt relieved, thinking that if he had been careless, he might never have seen In Deok again.

“That Core Formation monk was a demonic cultivator. Full of blood energy.”

“Blood energy?”

“Yeah. He was emitting red blood energy in all directions.”

“Hmm. Blood energy…”

At the mention of blood energy, Kang Hyeon naturally thought of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa.

It was already famous that Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s main cultivation method used blood energy.

“You’re thinking of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa, right?”

In Deok asked.

“Did that Core Formation monk seem to have learned Body Strengthening Technique too?”

Kang Hyeon asked.

“That’s right. He was shirtless, and his skin was covered with spell patterns.”

“And those spell patterns were red too?”

“Right.”

“Then there’s at least a thirty percent chance he’s a disciple of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa.”

“If he’s a Body Strengthening practitioner who uses blood energy, you should estimate higher. About fifty percent.”

In Deok said that the probability Kang Hyeon estimated was too low.

“Looking at the blood energy and Body Strengthening Technique, that’s true, but still, it’s a bit petty for a disciple of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa, one of the Five Great Sects, to interfere with Liaison Trading Hall’s auction.”

“Huh?”

“You know, they have their reputation…”

“Is that so?”

“That’s why I said thirty percent, but it might not be the case. It really could be a disciple of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa causing trouble, or that Core Formation monk you met could be one of those who entered the ruins with us.”

“True, there were many among the auction participants who hid their appearances. I can’t definitively say that the monk I met was necessarily from the side that disrupted the auction.”

In Deok also nodded, acknowledging that there were flaws in his thinking.

“Well, anyway, I’m glad you’re safe.”

“It’s all thanks to you, Hyeon. Thank you.”

“Stop with the useless talk and let’s go out.”

“Now?”

“I stuck a Trent branch where I arrived, so I can open an entrance there.”

“Wow! Really?”

“The Mysterious Mirror is positioned at the last place an entrance was opened. So if I just open an entrance now, it would open to that place where you met the Core Formation monk.”

“I know that too. So I also thought I’d exit to a different place.”

“The problem is that this isn’t an ordinary space. It’s a space created by formation techniques and separated from the mortal world. Similar to the Mysterious Mirror.”

“So what?”

In Deok asked back as if he couldn’t guess what Kang Hyeon was trying to say.

“If I open the Mysterious Mirror’s entrance from here to outside the ruins, there would be no way to enter here again. That’s why I stuck the Trent’s branch when entering the Mysterious Mirror.”

“Ah! I understand what you mean. Yeah.”

At Kang Hyeon’s explanation, In Deok nodded with an expression of admiration.

“You’re really thorough as always.”

“Let’s go out first. It’s hard to know what’s happening outside from here.”

“Yeah, okay. But will it be alright?”

“If it’s not alright, we’ll have to come back immediately.”

“Then we’d have to give up exploring the ruins?”

“If someone discovered us opening and entering the Mysterious Mirror, going back to that place would be difficult. Naturally, exploring the ruins would be over too.”

“I hope no one was there.”

“Yeah. Me too.”

Kang Hyeon replied like that and immediately opened the entrance through Trent’s branch that he had stuck under the rock before opening the Mysterious Mirror.

“It’s okay.”

Coming outside, Kang Hyeon reassured In Deok, who followed with an anxious expression.

Then he immediately took out the Flying Leaf Ship magical instrument and floated it in the air.

“Will it be okay? Using a flying magical tool?”

“This place is incredibly vast. Even when I spread my spiritual consciousness, I can’t know its end, so moving only with escape techniques might waste magical power.”

Escape techniques were perfect for quickly moving short distances of dozens to hundreds of li, but for long-distance travel, spiritual energy consumption would inevitably be high.

So Kang Hyeon chose to travel by flying magical tool rather than waste spiritual energy on escape techniques.

“Let’s go.”

Kang Hyeon took In Deok aboard the Flying Leaf Ship and began flying through the sky.

“When I heard ‘ancient ruins,’ I imagined old architectural structures, but mountains, rivers, and sky? This is just a whole world.”

In Deok said while standing at the bow of the Flying Leaf Ship, looking down at the surface.

“Right. I never thought the ruins would be this big either.”

Kang Hyeon had similar expectations, so he agreed like that.

But then it happened.

A red light flashed from far away in the direction the Flying Leaf Ship was heading.

And when Kang Hyeon and In Deok wondered about the identity of that light, a faint thunder sound reached them.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble! Boom!

“Lightning?”

Kang Hyeon quickly stopped the Flying Leaf Ship and muttered while staring ahead.

In Deok also looked at Kang Hyeon with a surprised expression and said.

“It was red light.”

“And Red Lightning is a representative phenomenon that appears when using Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s Life Chain Curse.”

Kang Hyeon’s expression hardened as he mentioned the Life Chain Curse.

The Life Chain Curse was a spell technique learned by Blood Extreme Mountain Villa disciples, a spell that absorbed life force within a certain range.

“They said if you enter the Life Chain Curse’s domain, your life force gets drained and you die withered, right?”

When In Deok asked that, red light flashed once more from the distance.

“Hmm.”

This time, Kang Hyeon’s expression became serious as he directly confirmed the red lightning, even if faintly.

“Let’s retreat.”

In Deok recommended withdrawal to such Kang Hyeon.

“Yeah. That would be good.”

Kang Hyeon also nodded at In Deok’s words.

But when Kang Hyeon turned the bow of the Flying Leaf Ship, red clouds spread rapidly from far away.

“Hyeon, that thing!”

“This is crazy. They seem to have marked us as sacrifices.”

“What do we do?”

In Deok looked at Kang Hyeon and asked.

“We have to run first! Let’s go!”

Kang Hyeon answered like that and quickly drew the Flying Leaf Ship into his sleeve.

The giant Flying Leaf Ship shrank instantly and disappeared into Kang Hyeon’s sleeve, then In Deok grabbed Kang Hyeon’s hand.

“Here we go!”

Crack!

Then In Deok drew down a lightning strike from the sky, wrapped it around himself and Kang Hyeon’s bodies, then exploded it and disappeared.

It was a variation of Thunder Escape Technique using lightning energy to move through space with Kang Hyeon.

Hiss hiss hiss hiss! Crackle!

After Kang Hyeon and In Deok disappeared like that, red blood energy spread like fog in that spot, and from within that blood energy fog, the resentment of Red Lightning flowed out.

As if regretting the lost sacrifices.

“Lucky bastards.”

And from within such Red Lightning’s rippling, a cultivator with a pale white face walked out.

He wore a spacious dark red daopo robe, and the red color of that robe was formed from the condensation of blood energy.

“No. It would be a loss to excessively widen the Life Chain Curse’s range just to chase mere Early Qi Accumulation level bastards.”

“I should just finish organizing and collect what’s already entered the net.”

“Since they entered this place, they’re already finished. I’m just letting them live a little longer.”

He floated alone in the air with his hands behind his back, muttering as if having a conversation with someone.

And after a while, he walked back into the blood energy fog, and soon even that fog quickly returned to where it came from.

And during that time, In Deok had performed Thunder Escape Technique five times in succession, moved four hundred li, and was now controlling his surging spiritual energy.

“Ugh, I’m dying.”

“Seeing you groan from just this much, you need to train more.”

“It’s because I had to move while carrying you too, Hyeon! You know that perfectly well!”

“As if having me along would be such a burden. Rather, how much did I assist you with the power of Wood Attribute Spiritual Energy.”

“…”

“But don’t make such a dejected expression.”

“Are you giving me the disease and the cure?”

“That earlier technique was almost certainly Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s Life Chain Binding, right?”

“Are you changing the subject?”

“This isn’t the time for jokes. The situation is serious.”

“Huh? What is?”

“First, if we assume that Resolution Stage cultivator you met belongs to Blood Extreme Mountain Villa.”

“Then?”

“Then we have to add the Life Chain Binding to that Resolution Stage cultivator’s situation.”

“Blood Extreme Mountain Villa entered these ruins in groups?”

“The Resolution Stage cultivator you met was alone, so he wasn’t the one using the Life Chain Binding. The Life Chain Binding is a spell technique that requires at least four people to properly deploy.”

“There needs to be one main spell caster and at least three supporting spell casters. That’s how they can create the range.”

“Right, that’s exactly it.”

The secrets of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s Life Chain Binding were unknown.

However, it was such a famous spell technique that some information was known, and according to that, there was a cultivator who controlled the spell technique and supporting cultivators who created the spell’s range.

But to designate a fixed range, it needed to be at least triangular, so three supporting cultivators were absolutely necessary.

Triangle, square, pentagon, and so on.

The domain of the Life Chain Binding Technique changed form according to the number of those supporting cultivators.

Naturally, if there were only two supports, they could never create the spell’s domain.

“The cultivator at the center of the spell technique would also need to be at the Resolution Stage, so we should assume that at least two Resolution Stage cultivators from Blood Extreme Mountain Villa have entered this place and move accordingly.”

In Deok also seemed convinced of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s danger as he spoke and looked at Kang Hyeon.

“We should move assuming those two aren’t the end of it.”

“You think there are more?”

“Five hundred cultivators entered here, and among them, I identified well over ten Resolution Stage cultivators alone. And that was when only about three hundred people had gathered at the auction hall.”

“Then there are roughly over twenty Resolution Stage cultivators in these ruins?”

“By ratio, yes, but since I confirmed over ten, if Blood Extreme Mountain Villa decided to scheme something, just two or three Resolution Stage cultivators wouldn’t be enough.”

“Wow, you sure take a roundabout way of saying there might be a Spirit Body Stage cultivator here.”

In Deok mentioned a Spirit Body Stage cultivator and looked around.

“If a Spirit Body Stage elder is here, avoiding the attention of us two wouldn’t be difficult, would it? So looking around like that is useless.”

“I know that too. I’m just looking.”

“Anyway, let’s assume Blood Extreme Mountain Villa is scheming something in these ruins. I’m telling you to be on high alert.”

“Resolution Stage is already hard to handle, and there’s a high possibility that even Spirit Body Stage cultivators have entered? But you still want to try something here? Trusting in the Mysterious Mirror?”

“It’s the Mysterious Mirror that helped us avoid even an Avatar Stage demonic beast.”

“Still, if they’re at the Spirit Body Stage, couldn’t they subdue us before you even open the Mysterious Mirror?”

“That’s possible, but they probably wouldn’t go that far. For a Spirit Body Stage cultivator to go that far against us Early Qi Accumulation cultivators would be excessive. It would damage their reputation.”

“So you’re saying we should trust in a Spirit Body Stage cultivator’s pride?”

“Haha. Right, as you said In Deok, Spirit Body Stage cultivators have their pride. It would be a bit much for them to do their absolute best just to catch us.”

“Sigh, I don’t know. Honestly, I was the one who was greedier for the ruins’ treasures, but in the current situation, I’m wondering if we should just give up.”

“We don’t need to step onto the blade’s edge of a precipice, but you know we can’t always just cower and avoid everything, right?”

“Ugh. Yeah. I know, I know! So what do you want to do?”

In Deok wanted to suggest entering the Mysterious Mirror to avoid Blood Extreme Mountain Villa’s danger, but since he didn’t want to become someone who always cowered and avoided everything, he reluctantly asked about Kang Hyeon’s plan.

“If Blood Extreme Mountain Villa caused trouble to the point of disrupting Liaison Trading Hall’s auction, they must have a good reason for it, right?”

“Probably?”

“So ultimately, as much as the danger has increased, our expectations could also be higher. It means there must be something amazing here. Don’t you think?”

“When you put it that way, I suppose that’s true.”

“Are you feeling a bit motivated now?”

“Y-yeah!”

In Deok couldn’t say no, so he reluctantly nodded as if he had no choice, and Kang Hyeon led such In Deok to set out on exploring the ruins again.

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