Chapter 169 What Can I Do for You?
Yuan Ming turned around and left the tiankeng with the other eleven people. Everyone left separately in tacit understanding.
Yuan Ming stood in place, looking around at the backs of the people who left, and felt a little emotional.
Perhaps this is the style of the scattered alliance mission. There is no blessing from the sect, nor is there any restriction from the sect's position. There is only a remuneration relationship between the hired and the scattered alliance.
Today, I went deep into the dragon's den and the tiger's den, fought against strange birds and beasts, and retired after success. In the future, I will ride on horses and step on flowers, see the exotic scenery, and wander around the world.
Two-way choice, go or stay as you like.
It actually aroused some of the longing for the chivalrous knights in the rivers and lakes who held swords in their hands and drank wine in pots when they were children, which was hidden in the depths of his fragmented memories.
At that time, he didn't know much about the rivers and lakes, but he liked to listen to people's stories.
Now I have experienced a lot and seen a lot, but I find that what I see is far less beautiful than what I hear.
Some people in the Snake King Valley today died silently, without even receiving the hard-earned reward of ten spirit stones, and no one would even remember them.
After completely leaving the sight of others, a black light flashed between Yuan Ming's eyebrows, and two soul crows flew out silently, one flew to the tiankeng, and the other flew in another direction.
A figure soon appeared in the field of vision of the second soul crow, and it was Bai Rong.
This woman was suspected to be a disciple of the Black Fire Sect, and she had been quietly leaving some marks along the way. I don't know what she was planning, which made Yuan Ming a little curious.
Yuan Ming did not go far, but just stopped at a hidden mountain wall, took out the Cold Star Sword, and quickly dug a cave on the mountain wall.
He released another soul crow to guard outside, then took out the four-sided soul sealing talisman, pasted it around the cave, opened a hidden barrier, and then sat cross-legged, concentrating on controlling the soul crows going to the Snake King Cave and tracking Bai Rong.
The soul crow in the Snake King Cave had already flown into the cave, and soon heard the sound of fighting.
Yuan Ming controlled the soul crow to approach carefully, and saw Bai Ye and others fighting with a group of golden flower poisonous pythons.
The size of these golden flower poisonous pythons was obviously much larger than the ones encountered in the valley before, and they were also stronger. They moved like the wind and could spray venom from their mouths, making those temporary members a little helpless and difficult to resist.
However, the Bai Ye Sanmeng also showed its true strength at this moment. In addition to Bai Ye and Huan Shi, the other ten people each offered a white flag magic weapon with purple flame patterns embroidered on it, which looked like a set of magic weapons.
The ten people urged at the same time, and fist-sized purple flames shot out from the top of the white flag and hit the golden flower poisonous python.
These purple flames were powerful and could easily burn through the solid python scales of the golden flower poisonous python and turn it into ashes.
No matter how many golden flower poisonous pythons attacked from the front, they all died under the attack of the purple fire rain. Occasionally, one or two pythons that escaped were killed by the scattered cultivators who followed in. Bai Ye and Huan Shi didn't even make a move.
"This Bai Ye scattered alliance has such means. No wonder they dare to enter the snake cave to hunt the snake king. However, the golden flower snake king should be deeper..." Yuan Ming saw this and thought to himself.
He turned his mind and looked at Bai Rong.
Bai Rong was flying forward at this moment, with an amazing speed, which was two or three times faster than Yuan Ming after performing the Wind Speed Technique. Although the soul crow tried its best to catch up, it was still far behind.
Fortunately, Bai Rong was still the same as before. Every time she advanced a certain distance, she would leave a mark. The soul crow followed these marks and barely followed Bai Rong.
A moment later, the soul crow came to a dark forest. A new mark appeared on a big tree outside the forest, pointing to the inside of the forest.
"I hope Bai Rong will not continue to move forward." Yuan Ming controlled the soul crow to fly into the forest and said to himself.
The range of the Soul Crow's long-distance travel was only ten miles at the beginning. After his Dark Moon Art broke through the second level, the long-distance travel range doubled, but it was only twenty miles. Now it is almost reaching its limit. If Bai Rong continues to move forward, he will not be able to keep up.
The Soul Crow passed through the trees, and the view in front suddenly became wide, and a dilapidated castle appeared in front.
"Could it be that this Snake King Valley was inhabited before!" Yuan Ming was quite surprised when he saw this.
There was a not very obvious mark on a big tree in front of the castle. According to Yuan Ming's summary and speculation of many various marks along the way, the meaning of this mark is not difficult to understand, and it should point to the inside of the castle.
The Soul Crow flapped its wings and flew in, searching everywhere in the castle, and soon saw Bai Rong's figure outside a hall.
Bai Rong was looking at the inside of the hall with excitement, but did not go in.
The whole hall was shrouded in a layer of dark light at this moment, which seemed to be some kind of restriction, making it impossible to see through the situation in the hall.
Bai Rong pondered for a moment, turned his hand and took out the fiery red round mirror, facing the black light curtain, muttering something in his mouth.
A layer of red light appeared on the surface of the round mirror, and then a red beam of light shot out, hitting the black restriction.
But the black restriction only rippled slightly and immediately returned to its original state.
"The red seal mirror has no effect at all. It seems that it is a very high-level restriction. I can't break it alone." Bai Rong's eyes flickered slightly, and she muttered to herself.
As soon as the voice fell, the woman took out a purple talisman, whispered a few words to the talisman, and crushed it with one hand...
At this moment, the soul crow outside the cave suddenly screamed to warn, and Yuan Ming's face suddenly changed color. He slapped the ground with his palm, and his sitting body flew backwards with the force.
Two yellow misty hands emerged from the ground like lightning, grabbing the place where he just sat.
With a loud "bang", the rocks on the ground shattered into large pieces, and the rocks flew everywhere.
Yuan Ming's consciousness spread out and probed into the ground.
But it was a figure lurking underground, the whole body shrouded in a layer of yellow light, and the two yellow big hands that were displayed were unknown.
Yuan Ming's palm grabbed, and the Cold Star Sword appeared in his hand. A white sword energy flashed, and the two yellow big hands were easily cut off, and a layer of white frost appeared on the ground nearby.
He then held the sword with one hand and stabbed it into the ground, and the sword body was nearly halfway into the ground.
An extremely cold sword energy burst out and rushed straight to the man underground.
The man underground also noticed the sword energy coming, and hurriedly dodged to the side. The yellow light on his body allowed him to move freely underground and avoid the attack of the cold air.
Yuan Ming showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, pinched the formula to touch the Cold Star Sword, activated the extremely cold rune in it, and shouted in a low voice: "Explode!"
The extremely cold sword energy burst out suddenly, and the sharp and unusual cold air instantly flooded the surrounding area.
The underground soil was frozen and turned into a hard ground like stone. The figure underground was also affected by the eruption of cold air, and his whole body trembled.
This person's magic power was also affected, and most of the yellow light on his body was extinguished. Half of his body was stuck in the soil and could not move.
"Damn Guo Ge, didn't you say that this person is just an ordinary ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator? You didn't even find out whether he has such a powerful magic weapon!" The person underground couldn't help but curse, and used all his strength to activate the earth travel talisman on his body, and the extinguished yellow light began to revive.
However, the person was surrounded by the extreme cold power of the Cold Star Sword, and the recovery speed of the yellow light was very slow.
"If you escape easily, my Cold Star Sword will be in vain!" Yuan Ming sneered slightly, pinched the formula again, and another extremely cold sword energy shot out, hitting the person underground directly.
A low scream came out from the ground, and then it returned to deathly silence.
A big hole was pierced in the chest and abdomen of the person, and he was no longer breathing.
Yuan Ming slapped the spirit beast bag on his waist, and the black toad jumped out, with a purple-black demon vine shooting out from its back.
He took off his storage ring, let the purple-black demon vine wrap around it, and sank into the ground. Using the method he used to steal Li Shark's collection, he quickly brought up the body of the man underground.
This man had yellow hair and was about 20 or 30 years old. His whole body had frozen into an ice stick. His face was terrified and his facial features were distorted, but his appearance was still recognizable. He was a member of another team who had chosen to leave earlier.
Yuan Ming had no expression on his face, and had no intention of investigating why this person wanted to plot against him. Facing an enemy, he would never hold back.
He took off the storage bag of the yellow-haired young man, reached into his arms again, and took out a palm-sized yellow talisman from the frozen clothes.
Judging from the effect of the yellow-haired young man's previous use, this should be a talisman with an underground effect.
This kind of talisman is very rare. Yuan Ming wanted to buy one when he went to Black Rock City before, but unfortunately he failed to buy it.
Although the yellow talisman had been used, it still emitted a very strong fluctuation of mana.
"It seems that this talisman can be used multiple times like the Four-Direction Sealing Spirit Talisman." Yuan Ming said to himself, and then put the talisman away.
He took the storage bag of the yellow-haired young man, frowned suddenly, and looked outside.
In the dense poisonous miasma outside the stone cave, three figures slowly lurked over. They were a burly man, a woman in red, and a young man with cold eyebrows. They were the other three people in the team where the yellow-haired young man was.
After approaching the stone cave, the three hid behind a big stone, as if waiting for something.
The three did not notice that a black crow was quietly crouching on a stone not far from them.
"It's them..." Yuan Ming muttered to himself, roughly guessing the purpose of the few people.
However, he did not go out and continued to explore the storage bag of the yellow-haired young man.
Speaking of which, the yellow-haired young man was quite shabby. There were only 20 or 30 spiritual stones in the storage bag, and the rest were some ordinary materials and a low-grade long sword magic weapon.
After Yuan Ming put these things into the storage bag in different categories, he stood up and walked out of the cave.
The black toad took a step forward and flew out, instantly disappearing in the dense poisonous miasma.
The three people behind the big rock were waiting impatiently. Seeing Yuan Ming suddenly appear, they were all shocked and hurriedly restrained their breath.
"Since you are here, why do you three have to hide?" Yuan Ming said loudly.
The three burly men saw that they were discovered and walked out from behind the big rock.
"How did you find us?" The burly man asked.
The three of them cast a spell to hide their breath. This place is ten feet away from the cave, and there is miasma in the middle. Even a cultivator in the foundation-building stage may not be able to find it.
"It's not important how I found you. What's important is, what are you doing here?" Yuan Ming asked instead of answering.