Chapter 23: Chapter23:Peace of Mind
In the face of the elder's furious rebuke, Chu Xingchen responded with an even more powerful supernatural ability.
A sword intent like a waterfall surged towards the elder like a tsunami.
Now the second disciple didn't seem to be in a good state. No matter how you looked at it, he didn't seem to be okay.
Time was clearly not on their side from any perspective.
After all, his disciple was only at the Foundation Establishment realm. Even with a teleportation talisman to save his life, it couldn't be considered completely safe.
At present, a quick battle to end it quickly was the right strategy.
Mo Chen was extremely horrified. He felt that all his spiritual energy was locked in place. Facing that terrifying sword, he felt as if the death omen was flashing madly above his head.
"Master, wait! Spare his life for now!"
Suddenly, Li Xingtian spoke up at the entrance of the mine cave.
After a slight hesitation, Chu Xingchen still withdrew his strength. At the very last moment, the sword qi shifted slightly and didn't chop off the elder's terrified and almost splitting head.
Seeing that his master had held back, Li Xingtian quickly let out a sigh of relief and then rushed forward.
He rushed straight towards the elder, and then blood-colored spiritual energy suddenly emerged in his hand and he firmly pressed it against the elder's head.
Although Chu Xingchen's sword hadn't taken the elder's life, the elder had indeed endured the power of that sword.
Even if he wasn't on the verge of death, he was seriously injured. Facing Li Xingtian who was running towards him, Elder Mo Chen didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.
He could only let Li Xingtian reach out and press his head.
Then, the elder was horrified to find that the blood power within his body was being frantically absorbed by this Foundation Establishment brat.
A Foundation Establishment cultivator absorbing from a Golden Core cultivator? Such a thing had never been heard of before. Although it was partly because he was seriously injured.
But Elder Mo Chen clearly felt that it was actually a suppression from a cultivation method!
This kid's cultivation method was even more evil than his own as an evil cultivator!
This was an evil thing that could even absorb from evil cultivators!
Chu Xingchen watched as his disciple really began to absorb the blood power within the elder's body like an evil cultivator.
The two of them were surrounded by dark red blood-colored spiritual energy. Chu Xingchen couldn't help frowning and asking:
"What's going on?!"
Li Xingtian could only turn his head slightly to look at his master and explained:
"There's an evil cultivator's ritual array here. They used to absorb the spiritual roots and blood energy of those miners to cultivate their evil skills in the past!"
Chu Xingchen tightly gripped the long sword in his hand and glared at Li Xingtian, saying unhappily:
"I'm asking about you! What's your situation?!"
"Me?!" Li Xingtian was stunned when he heard this. Then he looked down and saw his own blood-colored spiritual energy and suddenly realized,
"I'm okay. It's just that master, your cultivation method seems to be able to interact with those blood pools too..."
Having said that, Li Xingtian's expression also became a bit abnormal.
After all, he had never heard of any orthodox immortal cultivation method that could interact with an evil cultivator's ritual array.
Moreover, the priority of his current cultivation method was even higher than that of those evil cultivators.
Wouldn't he create a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood every time he made a move in the future?
But at this moment, time was tight and it wasn't the time to dig deeper. Chu Xingchen quickly said:
"As long as you're okay. The reinforcements from the other side are probably coming soon. How's the situation?"
Li Xingtian quickly felt that the spiritual energy within his body was filling up rapidly, and his cultivation level was also rising rapidly as the cultivation method operated.
He immediately replied: "I just saw senior sister walking into the mine cave. I've killed all the Foundation Establishment cultivators inside. Senior sister should be safe. Master, you go to the warehouse to get the things and then withdraw immediately. I'll take care of this person!"
Chu Xingchen nodded slightly and then rushed straight towards the warehouse.
Those other Foundation Establishment disciples of the Qingfeng Sect had already fled when their elder was knocked down by a sword.
At this moment, no one came to stop Chu Xingchen. He directly kicked open the door of the warehouse.
The scene that came into view also made Chu Xingchen stunned for a moment.
The number of spirit stones in the warehouse was okay, but there was an array in the warehouse that used the blood energy coming from the mine cave to nourish these spirit stones in the warehouse.
At this moment, the spirit stones in sight were no longer the usual light blue ones that emitted spiritual energy fluorescence.
Instead, they were light red and emitted a bloody smell.
No... Wouldn't these spirit stones be mistaken for being from an evil cultivator if taken out to buy things?!
These people really desecrated even the spirit stones.
But there was no time to worry about that for now.
With the thought of "since I'm already here", Chu Xingchen still stuffed all the spirit stones in front of him into his spatial ring one after another.
The space in the ring was quickly filled up. At this moment, there were still some small spirit stones left.
Chu Xingchen casually picked up two more spirit stones and put them into his arms and then didn't continue to be greedy.
After going out, Li Xingtian had already dealt with Elder Mo Chen.
At this moment, Elder Mo Chen was like a mummy, just skin and bones.
Chu Xingchen looked and saw that Li Xingtian's cultivation level had already reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
He had caught up with Li Yingling's progress.
Now Li Xingtian was preparing his first plan.
He was preparing the simplest teleportation array. How simple was it? — The destination couldn't be determined, and the teleportation distance couldn't be determined either.
Chu Xingchen threw a few blood-red spirit stones from his spatial ring to Li Xingtian to provide spiritual power to drive this array.
Just at that moment, Li Yingling walked out of the mine cave with a person in her hand.
Li Yingling was also wearing a ghost mask on her face. She was holding Ning Qianqian's father, Ning Kun, in her hand.
After Li Yingling walked out, many miners rushed out of the mine cave right behind her.
"You've also seen that staying here will surely lead to death, just a matter of sooner or later." Li Xingtian continued with his movements and said, "Now I've drawn a teleportation array."
"How far this array can teleport and where it will teleport to are both uncertain! It's very likely that you'll still be caught by the people of the Qingfeng Sect."
"You can naturally choose to stay. I won't force you, but this is the only chance! Think about it carefully! Those who are willing, stand inside the circle."
Li Xingtian used his spiritual energy to make his voice clearly reach the ears of those miners.
All the miners looked at the scene in front of them with a bit of confusion.
However, there were also some quick-witted ones. Just now, during the battle in the mine cave by Li Xingtian, the spiritual energy swept through and somehow shattered the base of an illusion array somewhere.
As the illusion disappeared, those miners naturally saw the bloody pool and also saw the blood essence being extracted from themselves.
How could they not understand that working here like oxen and horses was one thing, but in the end, they would still be sucked dry by those Qingfeng Sect people down to their bones.
Someone in the group of miners spoke excitedly:
"Thank you, benefactor, for saving our lives. We have nothing to repay you with!"
Li Xingtian didn't say anything. He just kept his head down and finished drawing the last stroke of the array.
He stuffed the various spirit stones into the positions of the array base.
The array suddenly burst out with light.
Li Xingtian took a deep breath and said: "Don't thank me. Just remember that if you have the chance, don't be an onlooker."
For some reason, when seeing those people, Li Xingtian always thought of his childhood friend from the same village who died here.
Then he couldn't help but laugh at himself. Li Xingtian didn't know why he wanted to save them.
But, wasn't cultivating immortality all about achieving peace of mind?
If you want to do something, just do it. Whether it's for self-comfort or because of thinking of his former friend.
In the end, it was what he wanted to do in his heart.
Then he turned his head to look at his master.
His master just nodded gently at him.