Chapter 257 Assassination

Yuan Ming was quite excited to learn a practical spell just after possessing the body. He then hinted to the old woman again and again, trying to make her practice other spells.

Yuan Ming hinted more than ten times before the old woman with crutches stopped practicing and stood up to the entrance of the cave.

The entrance of the cave was blocked by a large stone several feet high. The old woman pressed her palm on it, and a layer of yellow light appeared on the stone. It bounced from the ground like a bullet and flew out with a "woo" sound.

Yuan Ming thought about it and recognized that the old woman was casting a mid-level spell of earth attribute, the stone control spell, which can control mud and rocks, and is very useful in battle.

Unfortunately, his spiritual root lacked earth in the five elements, so he could not master the earth attribute spells and did not bother to comprehend the casting process.

Outside the cave entrance was a tall stone forest, with vines and trees growing in clusters, and countless tall trees growing in the distance. It looked like a wilderness. I don’t know why this woman came here.

Just as the old woman with crutches was about to go out, a black sword light suddenly shot out from the stone forest without any warning and pierced the neck of the old woman with crutches.

The old woman with crutches was startled and swung the cane in her hand horizontally, and a yellow shadow of the cane met the black sword light.

Her other hand was full of yellow light, as if she was going to use other magical powers.

However, at this moment, the black sword light suddenly changed, as if a spirit snake twisted, easily avoiding the obstruction of the cane shadow, and pierced into the heart of the old woman with crutches at a speed as fast as lightning, and pierced through her back.

Bang!

A blood mist sprayed backwards, dyeing a large area of ​​the ground red.

Yuan Ming was so scared by the sudden attack that he was in such a situation because he was leaning over the old woman, and he just came back to his senses at this moment.

He was just possessed by the old woman, and his perception of the surrounding situation was limited, so he couldn't see everything clearly.

The old woman on crutches also spurted out a mouthful of blood, her eyes were extremely angry, she took out a pill with one hand and swallowed it, and stretched out the other hand forward, five long dragon-like purple lights shot out from her nails, and hit the stone forest in front of her with extraordinary speed.

The stones and trees in the stone forest were brushed by the purple light, and all of them "sizzled" and melted and pierced quickly like candles.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Ming couldn't help but admire the fierce poison on the old woman's nails. Not to mention the body of a cultivator, even a magic weapon might not be able to withstand it, and the poison of a flower branch is far from comparable to it.

Although the old woman on crutches had a powerful poisonous magical power, she was hit in the vitals. Due to the serious injury, the mana was lost, and she soon collapsed to the ground, staring at the stone forest with eyes full of resentment and unwillingness, as if she wanted to know who killed her.

This old woman had a high status in Bailuo Villa, but someone assassinated her so easily. Yuan Ming also became quite curious about the identity of the murderer and also looked towards the passage.

Time passed little by little, and no one appeared in the stone forest.

The breath of the old woman with crutches became weaker and weaker. After a few breaths, she stopped breathing and her eyes slowly closed.

Yuan Ming sighed secretly. He was possessed by the old woman with crutches at this moment. With her death, his possession would probably end and he could not see the murderer.

However, contrary to his expectations, the breath of the old woman with crutches completely dissipated, and the power of her soul began to dissipate, but he could still see the situation around him.

"Why is this happening?"

Yuan Ming was very surprised and hurriedly sensed the situation of the possession carefully, and soon found something.

His soul power could actually overflow, which was very similar to using his spiritual consciousness to explore, but it was much more obscure. If he did not sense it carefully, he would not be able to detect it.

Yuan Ming suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he could see the situation around him when the old woman closed her eyes.

He guessed that the reason for this was related to the incense ash used to make spiritual incense. Could it be that the incense ash that had been worshipped by the monks could cause so many changes after possession?

At this moment, a black figure walked out of the passage, wearing a large black cloak, and his face could not be seen.

Yuan Ming used his soul power to try to detect the man's appearance, but as soon as his soul power touched the black cloak on the man, it was isolated by an invisible force and could not detect anything.

The black-robed man walked to the old woman's body, stretched out a pale hand, and took away the old woman's storage magic weapon and the cane magic weapon.

Yuan Ming only felt that his eyes were also black, and his consciousness completely fell into darkness and returned to his body.

He slowly opened his eyes, silent, and his mind turned.

What was the origin of the black-robed man who suddenly attacked the old woman?

However, if he encountered such an attack, how would he react? He thought about it for a while and didn't figure it out, so he gave up for the time being.

This time, there were many accidents in the possession, and it was not possible to test the possession time of Hei Xiang after adding fire pine wood. He could only wait until the next possession.

Yuan Ming lit a purple incense stick and inserted it into the Heaven Stealing Cauldron. The smoke rose up and formed a snake shape, circling around him. Yuan Ming took a breath, and the spiritual smoke was divided into two streams and sucked into his nose. He took a Four Spirit Pill and operated the Nine Yuan Jue at the same time.

The consciousness in his mind suddenly fluctuated.

This was caused by the vibration of the beast-controlling rune in Huazhi's body. This demon vine was probably fighting with a powerful enemy again. The demon power was too intense, which affected the beast-controlling rune in the body.

Yuan Ming was not surprised. Similar situations had happened many times this month. Huazhi seemed to be very keen on hunting, and he had long been accustomed to it.

After Yuan Ming calmed down, he closed his eyes again and immersed himself in cultivation.

...

In the Yuxu Swamp.

Huazhi was fighting with a black mantis-like demon beast.

This mantis monster was about two meters long, with sharp eyes and two front limbs that were like two large black machetes. When it swung, it drew black lines. No matter whether it was a tree or a stone, it would be cut in half if it touched it.

Huazhi was also very careful when facing the black mantis, and urged the demon vines to attack from all directions, trying to avoid the attack of the two front limbs as much as possible.

Around Huazhi, there were many small demon beasts, including vine demons like Huazhi, some poisonous insects, and small beasts, at least 20 or 30 of them, all of which seemed to be Huazhi's subordinates.

These small demons followed Huazhi and attacked the black mantis from all directions.

The black mantis gradually became tired of dealing with it, and tried to flap its wings and fly away several times, but was stopped by Huazhi.

After fighting for a while, the black mantis began to slow down, and due to a negligence, the demon vine of Huazhi pierced the hard shell on its chest and sank into its flesh and blood.

The black mantis was furious and waved its front limbs to cut off the demon vine.

Just as it was about to fight back, it suddenly felt a sharp pain in its chest. The demon vine that had pierced its body before could continue to move, drilling deep into its chest cavity and quickly piercing its atrium.

The black mantis wailed, fell to the ground and struggled for a while, and died.

Huazhi raised his hand and shot out a demon vine, which sank into the chest of the black mantis and quickly wrapped around a broken vine, which twisted like a snake.

A purple light flashed, and the broken vine slowly merged into the demon vine that wrapped around it.

Huazhi's other demon vines pierced into the black mantis' body and quickly sucked the mantis' blood dry, leaving only a dry shell.

It then controlled the demon vine to change into a blade shape, cut off two black forelimbs, sent them in front of itself, and then waved its hand.

A group of nearby little demons rushed forward, competing to gnaw on the remains of the black mantis, and soon devoured it clean.

Huazhi opened his mouth and spit out a storage ring, which took in the two sharp forelimbs of the mantis.

This storage ring was given to it by Yuan Ming before coming to Yuxu Swamp, and Huazhi's demon power can also use it.

Yuan Ming let it out to move freely, not without conditions. He wanted Huazhi to help collect various spiritual materials in Yuxu Swamp and send them back once every period of time.

"You really know how to order people around." Huazhi put away the ring, muttered a little dissatisfiedly in her heart, and led a group of little demons to continue forward.

...

Seven days passed quickly, and the Tai Chi pattern of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron was restored. Yuan Ming took out an hourglass, took out a black incense with fire pine wood, lit it, and possessed it again.

This time, the target was Liu Tianming.

Yuan Ming's vision went black, and when he woke up, he was already possessed by the little emperor Liu Tianming.

Liu Tianming was walking on a white jade mountain road at this moment. The mountain road was very long and led to the top of a towering giant peak, like a ladder to heaven.

Under the sunlight, the white jade mountain road shone, and the peak was also golden. Near the white jade mountain road, there were also tall and magnificent buildings.

In the air, auspicious clouds and cranes were flying, giving off the atmosphere of a heavenly palace fairyland.

"Tsk tsk, this is Changchun Temple. It is indeed the first major sect of cultivating immortals in Dajin, far from being comparable to Biluo Cave." Yuan Ming couldn't help but sigh when he saw the scene in front of him.

"I don't know who came up with the idea to build the library on the top of the mountain. It takes a long time to run every time." The little emperor Liu Tianming suddenly stopped and sat down on the big rock next to him, muttering with some dissatisfaction.

Yuan Ming was not polite to the little emperor, hinting at him and constantly instilling the four words "Fire Cloud Secret Art" into him.

Since he entered the world of immortal cultivation, the most powerful fire attribute spell he has seen is the Fire Cloud Secret Art. When he fought with Taoist Master Yu Hu that day, he had the idea of ​​stealing the master.

When he chatted with the little emperor in the Great Jin Palace before, he openly and secretly encouraged him to learn the Fire Cloud Secret Art, just to make it easier for him to steal the opportunity.

After so much time, I wonder if the little emperor has learned it?

The little emperor's cultivation is slightly lower than Yuan Ming's, and his spiritual consciousness is not as strong as Yuan Ming's. After a few times, he was quickly influenced by Yuan Ming's hints, and his mind shifted from perceiving the classics to the Fire Cloud Secret Art.

He suddenly took out a red jade slip from his storage ring, but then he paused slightly and said to himself in a strange way: "Hey, why did I suddenly take out this jade slip of Fire Cloud Technique?"

He originally planned to put the jade slip away, but after thinking about it, he still put it on his forehead and released his consciousness into it.

Yuan Ming also opened his consciousness and immersed himself in the jade slip, and finally saw the Fire Cloud Secret Technique he had dreamed of.

But the content of the jade slip was quite complicated, which gave him a headache.

The Fire Cloud Secret Technique was not a simple spell. It incorporated several spells of fire attributes, as well as forbidden spells, rune systems, etc. The complexity was not comparable to any spell he had come into contact with before.

Although Yuan Ming thought he had some talent in spells, he asked himself that he might not be able to learn such a complicated secret technique even if he explored it for a year or two.