Chapter 242 Chen Duhe_2
Before this.
Chen Yunxi had a very harmonious relationship with her younger brother's temperamental Golden Beast.
Even last time when the Golden Beast injured someone, it was her who stopped it.
Back then, people thought she was simply familiar with this spiritual beast.
But after the war began, as they hid in the mountains and forests, they gradually discovered the mysteries of the situation.
No matter the size of the Exotic Beast, Chen Yunxi could communicate with them and even command them in battle.
To put it simply, she doesn't need a contract to manipulate spiritual beasts.
In the path of Beast Taming.
Only by signing a contract can one guarantee the loyalty of a spiritual beast, prevent oneself from being backlashed, and establish effective communication to command the beast as if it were one's arm.
Every cultivator has a limited number of contracts they can sign for each stage.
But Chen Yunxi...
Has no such restriction.
She can control countless spiritual beasts if she wishes.
Of course.
Spiritual beasts vary in strength, so even with a large number, they are useless if their bloodline is insufficient.
"Who knows how long this war will last."
Zhaozhao, bored and lying on the railing, threw stones into the pond and muttered, "It's like living like savages in the mountains every day. So boring it's killing me~"
"What's wrong, girl?"
Ning Xiang watched Yunxi's tense expression.
"Someone is coming."
Chen Yunxi pursed her lips and pointed down the mountain, her soft voice trembling a bit: "Xiao Bailing told me someone is coming up."
Ning Xiang's expression turned serious.
Between the mountains and forests.
A cultivator of the Shengyun Sect held a white ferret, continuously pressing towards the bamboo house, stopping halfway on the mountain, frowning and muttering to himself, "The aura disappeared?"
"Rustling~"
While he was hesitating, a sound came from the bushes ahead.
Focusing on it.
It was a child lying on the ground, tinkering with something.
"Little kid."
Xie Fujun approached, probing, "You're so young, how can you be here alone? Aren't you afraid of being eaten by wolves?"
"..."
The child glanced at him, ignored him, and continued focusing on his work.
"Hey!"
The ignored cultivator was a bit angry, went up, and grabbed the child: "I'm talking to you!"
"How dare you!"
Chen Duhe floated in mid-air, shouting at him: "You dare to disrespect me!"
"Disrespect you? What kind of 'me' are you, brat!"
Xie Fujun impatiently raised his flying sword, threatening, "Your surname is Chen, right? Take me to where you're hiding, or I'll kill you!"
Then.
The originally high-spirited three-year-old child, upon seeing the shining blade, first showed fear, then began to cry loudly.
"Brat!"
Xie Fujun sneered, shouted again: "Stop crying and quickly take me there!"
"Wah wah wah—"
The child cried, pointing towards the southeast direction.
Xie Fujun looked pleased, rudely carried the child under his arm and headed in the direction indicated.
After walking about seventy or eighty steps.
Ahead, suddenly there was a surge of mana.
He quickly summoned his flying sword, clashing with the incoming silver ring magic artifact.
"A magical treasure?!"
The cultivator's expression initially tightened but turned contemptuous upon seeing the opponent.
Because the one controlling the silver ring.
Was just a Qi Refining Middle Stage female cultivator, unable to unleash the full power of the magical treasure.
"Boom!"
After a brief struggle.
The silver ring was thrown back.
Ning Xiang struggled to control it, her body drifting back far due to the spell's turbulence before stabilizing.
"Found you all!"
Xie Fujun was ecstatic and was about to kill the child in his arms when he felt a chilling pain in his chest, his half body going numb, subconsciously throwing the child away, then seeing in his arms, somehow, a reddish-brown venomous snake had appeared!
The snake contained both Sun and Moon Essence and Evil Qi within, its toxicity had clearly reached the First Rank.
"Damn it!"
Only then did Xie Fujun recall.
That the Luotian Mountain Range contains Slaughter Vein, possibly harboring some mutated beasts!
In just two breaths.
He felt the Evil Qi invade his body, causing intense pain in his meridians that made it difficult to channel his mana. His head became dizzy, his steps unsteady, making it hard to stand firm. Looking again at the child, there was not a trace of the previous fear and crying, and now the child stared at him with a sinister gaze after being thrown to the ground.
Sinister?!
Damn it.
Why would such an expression appear on a three-year-old child?!
This little bastard, was he acting before?
He wasn't afraid of me at all.
Pretended to agree to show the way just to make me lower my guard, to let a snake bite me?!
Three years old!
Children who are even a bit dull can't even speak fully!
Who would guard against a three-year-old child?!
Xie Fujun indeed had heard that in the Cultivation World, some children were born extraordinary, but he never thought he would encounter such a thing in the mortal realm.
"You little bastard, I'll kill you!"
He raised his flying sword intending to kill, but the female cultivator wielding a magic artifact attacked again.
Xie Fujun had no choice but to turn his direction, once more parrying the silver ring, while quickly sealing his acupoints and chaotically swallowing several detox elixir pills to prevent the worsening of his wounds.
He was a late-stage cultivator of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
Even with the restriction of snake venom, gritting his teeth to kill a cultivator in the fourth or fifth layer of Qi Refining was still not a problem.
But at this moment.
Xie Fujun saw the deep eyes of that woman in purple, lighting up with pink spirit light, and his heart sank with the thought that it was not good, but it was too late. He only felt his mind waver, nearly losing consciousness.
With cultivation lower than his, the Charming Technique could exert such a significant effect!
He silently chanted the Calming Incantation, forcibly maintaining a shred of clarity by sacrificing his essence blood.
The result...
He then saw a yellow-dressed young girl forming seals with her hands and controlling a sword to stab him.
She was only in the early stage of Qi Refinement.
But the speed of the flying sword she launched was so fast it was impossible to capture it.
Xie Fujun's chest was pierced at the scene by a bloody hole, and his body fell backward stiffly.
Immediately following, from among the forest came organized spiritual beasts and Exotic Beasts charging at him, behind these fierce beasts hid a little girl with a timid face.
Sharp teeth and hideous mouths began tearing at his limbs.
In the presence of snake venom, Charming Technique, sword wounds, and more, Xie Fujun was already powerless to resist, his blurred vision saw the three-year-old child picking up his flying sword, stumblingly approaching step by step.
Monster!
What kind of monsters are these damned monsters!
Not a single normal person!
Only endless horror remained in his heart.
The three-year-old child dragged the flying sword to the dying cultivator, biting his gums to muster the strength of sucking milk, only then lifting the flying sword, and no longer maintaining it, letting it fall freely.
The sword blade struck Xie Fujun's neck, ending his life.
A three-year-old child, kills an Immortal Master!
"..."
This scene.
Made Ning Xiang and the others' hearts tremble.
This child is so young, yet, yet killed someone?
And killed a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining?!
"He'er!"
Gu Xinlan and Sun Li arrived last.
Sister Lan picked up the child, frantically checking for any injuries: "He'er, are you hurt?"
After confirming the child was alright, she then realized what her son had just done.
"Mother!"
Chen Duhe pointed to the disfigured corpse being gnawed by Exotic Beasts on the ground, lodging a complaint: "He was disrespectful to me!"
Above their heads.
Chen Sansi, who had been holding the bowstring, witnessed the entire event.
He could have shot through the cultivator's head directly, then saw his three-year-old son kill a man himself.
Even having emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, Chen Sansi found it somewhat unbelievable.
But had no time to worry about these matters for now.
He descended from the sky, stepping on a magic artifact.
"Brother Shi?"
"Father?"
"General."
Ning Xiang asked: "When did you arrive?"
"When they set out, I knew."
Chen Sansi didn't waste words: "I've cleared away the others nearby, we can't stay here long, come quickly with me, from today onward, you all must follow the army."
After the cultivator appeared, the rear was no longer safe.
They may not have enough numbers to conquer cities, but assassinations wouldn't be a problem.