Chapter 22: Fight

In the dark cave, a Wu family cultivator was limping and walking slowly forward. After walking dozens of feet, he passed a cave paved with monster bones. Suddenly, a faint blue light came from the front. He thought he had found the exit and hurried forward to speed up his pace.

"This is the water spirit fruit. Haha, I didn't expect there was a water spirit fruit tree in this place. This time I'm going to make a fortune."

Wu Ziyuan looked at the water spirit fruit tree in front of him, which was emitting dazzling blue light. He was excited and didn't notice that a figure was slowly approaching him not far away in the darkness.

"Who is it!"

"Fellow Daoist Wu, it's me, I'm Du Yucheng from the Du family. Keep your voice down. It seems that this is a monster's nest."

A figure slowly appeared in the darkness, with a panic on his face. It was a Du family cultivator.

"It's Brother Du. You scared me."

Wu Ziyuan saw that Du Yucheng's injuries were not much better than his. He was also in a mess, with a large piece of mud on his face, which looked a little funny.

Yesterday in the woods, he had also seen this man. He was about the same age as him, about 30 years old, and was also considered a young cultivator of this generation. His cultivation was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining. He was not taken seriously by the Du family cultivators, and his status was far inferior to his in the Wu family.

In Wu Ziyuan's eyes, Du Yucheng was just an ordinary person, and his cultivation was not as good as his. He slowly let down his guard and put away the flying sword in his hand.

To be honest, these two people and Song Qingming were indeed unlucky. When the three of them were collecting monster materials by the pool, they were close to the center of the pool and were not able to react in time. They were all sucked into its cave by the whirlpool created by the black-feathered python.

Among the three, Song Qingming landed closer to the cave entrance and found the exit quickly. However, the two fell too far from the cave entrance and stumbled in the wrong direction. They came to the black-feathered python's nest and saw the water spirit fruit tree by chance.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, this really looks like a water spirit fruit tree. It's a pity that the water spirit fruits on the tree will take at least a hundred years to mature. Now we can't sell a piece of spirit stone. It's useless to us. It's a pity." Du Yucheng sighed with some regret after he finished speaking.

After listening to this, Wu Ziyuan rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Du, you are wrong. Although this water spirit fruit is useless to us now, this fruit tree is a second-level spirit fruit tree and is very valuable. As long as we can return alive and report this to the family, we will definitely get a lot of rewards, don't you think so?"

After Wu Ziyuan finished speaking, a smile appeared on his face, as if he had made another contribution and received a reward from the family like last time. After he went out, as long as he told the family about this news, the clan leader would definitely look up to him again, and he would also be able to get more cultivation resources in the clan.

After listening to this, Du Yucheng opened his mouth, thought for a while, and then, as if he had suddenly realized something, he patted his head and nodded, saying, "Brother Wu is right. Why didn't I think of that just now? Brother Wu is smart."

Seeing that Du Yucheng did not object, Wu Ziyuan continued, "It's just that this place is extremely dangerous. I don't know what kind of monster it is that just dragged us in here. It must have great magical powers. We should first find a way to get out."

"After I was dragged in, I have been here all the time. There are caves everywhere in this cave, and I can't find a way out. Brother Du, you are smart. Where do you think we should go?" Du Yucheng said with a simple face.

Wu Ziyuan thought for a moment and said, "When I was sucked into the whirlpool, I seemed to see someone being sucked in with us. Brother Du, have you seen this person?"

Du Yucheng lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly said loudly:

"By the way, Brother Wu, I just found a body in a cave in front. It seems to be a member of your family. I don't know if he was sucked into the cave with us."

"Do you know which one of my family it is? Take me to see it." Wu Ziyuan asked nervously.

"I was startled by the corpse there just now, and I didn't go close to take a closer look. I just saw that he was dressed similarly to Brother Wu, so he should be from your family. Don't worry, the corpse is in a cave not far ahead. I'll take you there now."

Du Yucheng led Wu Ziyuan to the depths of the cave and walked a few dozen steps around to a cave. Sure enough, a corpse appeared not far ahead. Du Yucheng ran forward to take a look and shouted loudly: "Brother Wu, this person seems to be the head of your family."

"Clan leader. How could this be?" Wu Ziyuan heard it and ran over in a panic.

Wu Ziyuan ran to Du Yucheng's side and saw that there was only the upper half of the corpse lying on the ground. He took a step forward to take a closer look and found that something was wrong. The man was wearing the silver robes unique to the Liu family monks. He was about to turn around to question Du Yucheng, but he didn't expect that a bright green dagger had already pierced his chest from the back.

"Du Yucheng, you, you, why are you doing this?"

Du Yucheng changed his simple and honest demeanor and showed a sinister smile.

"Hmph, this water spirit fruit tree, you actually want to tell the family, what can the Wu family give you, throw a few dozen spirit stones to send you away like a dog, you idiot, do you know the true value of this water spirit fruit tree?"

"If I tell Xiaoyao Sect about this Shuiling Fruit Tree, I will definitely have no problem joining Xiaoyao Sect in the future. Maybe I can even exchange it for a Foundation Establishment Pill right away. How can you, a short-sighted person like you, share this with me?"

"Daoyou Du, don't kill me. I am willing to swear a blood oath. After I go out, I will never reveal what happened today. I will pretend that I have never been here." Wu Ziyuan begged with a horrified face.

"Brother Wu, don't you understand? As long as you are alive, you are a threat to me. I never like being threatened." Du Pingtao sneered, a hint of ruthlessness appeared on his face, and kicked Wu Ziyuan to the ground again.

"Du Yucheng, are you really so vicious? If you kill me, aren't you afraid that my Wu family will know about this in the future?"

"Vicious, haha, isn't it always like this in the world of immortal cultivation? Even if your last name is Du, I will still do it today. As long as I can build a foundation, I can trample the Wu family or the Du family under my feet, hahahaha."

Wu Ziyuan struggled on the ground in despair, as if he wanted to stand up. Just when he was about to stand up, a cold light flashed across his throat, and Wu Ziyuan's body fell down unwillingly again, without any movement.

"A fool like you can practice faster than me, God is really unfair."

After being dragged into the cave, Du Yucheng happened to fall here, and immediately found the body of the Liu family elder. After secretly taking the storage bag from the Liu family elder, he accidentally got to the Shuiling fruit tree before Wu Ziyuan.

After seeing the water spirit fruit tree, he was shocked. He secretly planned to leave here and go directly to Xiaoyao Sect to exchange the water spirit fruit tree for what he wanted.

Just when he wanted to leave here first, he heard the footsteps of Wu Ziyuan coming here, so he could only hide in the dark depths of the cave.

Seeing that only Wu Ziyuan came, he happened to find the water spirit fruit tree, so Du Yucheng wanted to kill him. He wanted to take advantage of the dim light in the cave to slowly approach and attack Wu Ziyuan, but he didn't expect Wu Ziyuan's cultivation to be higher than him, and he discovered him in advance when he was about to approach.

Du Yucheng's injuries were not serious. The embarrassed look just now was also deliberately pretended. Although Wu Ziyuan's injuries were more serious than his at that time, he did not act rashly and directly, but chose to pretend to be friendly with him. His cultivation was not high, only the fifth level of Qi Refining. Facing Wu Ziyuan, who was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, even if he attacked first, it was indeed difficult to have the confidence of winning.

After lowering Wu Ziyuan's guard, he came up with this method to kill him here.

When they just walked into the cave, Du Yucheng pretended to lead the way and walked in front, borrowing the body of the Liu family elder to make Wu Ziyuan mistakenly think that the head of his own family was distracted, and then Du Yucheng sneaked a knife from behind to kill him.

Du Yucheng looked at the corpse on the ground, sneered a few times, confirmed that Wu Ziyuan had no breath, grabbed the storage bag on his body, turned around and disappeared in the dark cave.

After an incense stick of time,

A black giant python of four or five feet in size flew back to the pool from a distance. After circling the pool for several circles, the giant python roared several times at a pile of monster bones on the shore, and then plunged into the water, splashing a burst of water.

Fortunately, the black-winged python had always been concerned about the water spirit fruit tree in the cave, and did not chase everyone all the time. It only chased for more than ten miles and then turned back to the pool. Most people, including Liu Tianlong, escaped, and only a few unlucky Liu family monks were swallowed by the black-winged python.

The Liu family suffered heavy losses in this battle. The clan leader Liu Tianlong was seriously injured. Two late-stage Qi training elders also died in the monster's cave to cover Liu Tianlong's escape. After the black-winged python came ashore, it ignored the other monks and kept chasing after the Liu family. Along the way, the Liu family lost several mid-stage Qi training monks.

The losses of the other three families were not bad, but one monk from each family was dragged into the pool and his life or death was unknown.