Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 40 The Mysterious Strong Woman

In the maze, ancient trees are towering and all the wood is gray.

The ground was covered with dead branches and rotten leaves, and many poisonous reptiles such as centipedes and venomous snakes flashed by. Thick, thousand-year-old trees could be seen everywhere, and all kinds of exotic flowers and plants were everywhere. There were also countless strange beasts and birds of prey that occasionally met and fought each other. In addition, there was the foul smell emanating from the rotten leaves and corpses of living things. This smell gradually accumulated over time and turned into a miasma that could kill people invisibly.

This place is shrouded in fog all year round, with giant trees growing strangely and countless powerful beasts comparable to those at the level of Martial King living deep inside. It is dangerous at every step and one can lose his life if he is not careful.

When Ye Xuan entered this maze, he completely lost his way. He was surrounded by strange gray fog. After entering here for a hundred meters, Ye Xuan tried to return the same way he came, but to his surprise, he returned the same way and did not get out of the maze.

"How weird, how could there be such a place in the Beidou Mountains? Why have I never heard of it before?" Ye Xuan muttered to himself, very confused.

There was endless fog all around, and Ye Xuan could only see a hundred meters away even with his Star Jade Pupil.

And under his Star Jade Pupil Technique, Ye Xuan discovered that there were layers of space ripples flowing in the void around him!
"Could this be a naturally formed barrier where the laws of space have changed?"

Ye Xuan walked in the fog, lost in thought.

Fortunately, he devoured Wang Meng's blood, and his pupil soul evolved and became stronger, otherwise his vision here would not be able to reach thirty meters!
And if it is really as he thought, that this place is a naturally formed barrier, then with his current level of cultivation, it would be extremely difficult for him to get out of here.

Suddenly, Ye Xuan stopped moving, narrowing his eyes and looking at a vine growing on the surface of the giant tree three meters in front of him, his expression solemn.

This vine looks very ordinary. Apart from a thin blood-colored line faintly emerging on the surface, it is not much different from other vines.

But under Ye Xuanxing Yutong's observation, it was completely different.

Ye Xuan pondered for a moment, then slowly stepped back, gathering all the energy in his body. He retreated dozens of meters away, quickly cut his fingertips, and a drop of blood splashed onto the vine.

"Gah!" Instantly, the vine seemed to come alive after being hit by the blood, and it jumped up like a snake. Then, several blood vines stretched out from its roots, condensed together, squirmed a few times, and slowly calmed down and fell to the ground.

Sweat appeared on Ye Xuan's forehead. He pursed his lips and quickly turned and left.

Two days later, Ye Xuanxing was filling water beside a small river while carefully observing his surroundings. He smiled bitterly and said, "This must really be a naturally formed barrier. It can actually move on its own."

Gritting his teeth slightly, Ye Xuan opened his Star Jade Pupil and moved forward again. He didn't believe that he couldn't get out of here. Human power can overcome nature. Ye Xuan's face was cold and resolute.

"It should be this direction. Since you won't let me go out, I will go the other way and go deeper into the center!"

The pentagrams in Ye Xuan's pupils slowly rotated, capturing the regular fluctuations of the ripples in the surrounding space.

There are many ferocious beasts in this desolate place. Ye Xuan activated the Yinyuan Jade Pendant and tried his best to restrain his aura.

An hour later, his expression suddenly changed and he vaguely heard the roar of fighting ahead.

"Shua!" A white streak a thousand feet long flashed across the sky above and disappeared into the horizon.

"Sword Qi! Such a powerful sword Qi!!" Ye Xuan was shocked and recognized that the sword was an extremely terrifying sword Qi.

At this moment, a violent energy fluctuation came like a tidal wave.

The energy wave hit him, and Ye Xuan's clothes fluttered. His face turned horrified. He stared at the sky in the distance. That was where the sword energy came from. With the help of the powerful eyesight of the star pupil, Ye Xuan vaguely saw the figure of a graceful woman...

The woman was fighting with birds flying in the sky, and the direction of the battle was moving towards Ye Xuan.

In just a few breaths, it reached above Ye Xuan's head.

Ye Xuan was hiding in the stone forest. When he looked up, he saw himself standing there frozen in shock.

Surrounded by a sky full of red flames, a graceful woman stood in the air. She was wearing a long white dress, the sash of which fluttered in the wind. Her three thousand black hair hung down to her waist. Her face was as white as jade, and her feet were standing on a huge and beautiful white crane formed by the condensation of Yuanli.

Ye Xuan opened his mouth slightly, looking at the figure in the sky in astonishment. Although the white crane transformed by the Yuanli was very beautiful, it pales in comparison to the woman.

The woman stood there, as if the whole world was eclipsed. Her extremely beautiful face was like a dream. Her breathtakingly beautiful eyes contained a hint of majesty and nobility. Her cold temperament did not contain any worldly air, as if the Lady of the Nine Heavens had descended to earth.

As if sensing Ye Xuan's presence, the woman glanced at Ye Xuan with a sidelong glance. Her beautiful and tranquil face made people feel suffocated.

Seeing the energy of Yuan force emanating from Ye Xuan, she let out a soft "eh", as if she had not expected that a young warrior with only the first level of True Yuan Realm cultivation could have the chance to come here.

Ye Xuan was completely stunned. Not only was he shocked by the woman's beauty, but he was also shocked by the mysterious aura she exuded.

This woman was definitely more powerful than anyone he had ever seen before!

At this moment, four words emerged in Ye Xuan's mind - peerless beauty!
The sky was filled with densely packed fire crows, no less than tens of thousands of them, each as big as a washbasin, and they kept spewing red fireballs from their mouths, besieging the woman in the middle.

The mysterious woman was covered in a white light, forming a round, crystal-clear and beautiful shield that protected her and blocked the attack of fireballs.

"Who is she? She is fighting alone against the fire crows in the sky. Her fighting power is really terrifying?"

There were thunderous noises in the sky, and the energy pressure was so great that Ye Xuan's heels trembled. He took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his heart.

"Is this a real strong man?" He murmured. After initially witnessing the terrifying might of this level of battle, Ye Xuan felt that his previous fights were just like a fight between children. Now, he finally knew that the legendary one against ten thousand was really true.

"This woman should be a human, right? Why is she here fighting with the monsters?"

Suddenly, an extremely sharp aura came from above, and Ye Xuan's expression changed.

Inside the dazzling crystal white light, the woman frowned her beautiful eyebrows, as if she was getting a little impatient from the constant attacks of the fire crows in the sky. She raised one of her slender hands slightly in front of her and spread it out, revealing a delicate little sword as big as an embroidery needle.

"Go!" A sword intent suddenly burst out from the woman's body.

The small sword, which was as delicate as an ornament, suddenly burst into white light and turned into countless crystal white sword beams that shot out from the woman's hand. Each white sword beam was extremely sharp. All the fire crows that were hit by the white sword beams had their bodies pierced through by the white sword beams in an instant and died. For a moment, the crow corpses fell to the stone forest below like rain.

In just a few breaths, the white sword light had almost killed all of the fire crows, leaving only a few hundred!

Ye Xuan was stunned as he saw the sword light in the sky fly back to the woman's hand like a fish and gather into the needle-sized sword again!

"This scene is the legendary 'Ten Thousand Swords Returning to Their Origin'!"

Ye Xuan secretly smacked his lips.

In the sky, a woman in a white dress slowly rose from the back of the black crane. Behind her, the vital energy surged and formed the shadow of a huge white sword!

Sword intent!

The woman's sword intent actually turned into substance, which was obviously much more powerful than Ye Xuan's Fei Mo Gu Shang sword intent!

Ye Xuan's eyes flashed, and he noticed the mysterious woman who instantly killed a flock of fire crows in the sky. Her beautiful face turned slightly pale. It was obvious that the attack just now was not easy for a strong person like her to launch.

'Om! '

At this moment, the sky and the earth changed color, and the wind and clouds changed. From the sky and earth in front of them, a gray and hazy hand appeared, covering the sky and the sun, and slapped the mysterious woman with unparalleled power!

Seeing the giant hand that covered the sky and the sun, a hint of surprise appeared in the woman's beautiful eyes, which had always been calm.

(It’s the Spring Festival. I wish all book lovers good luck and happiness every day in the new year!)

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