I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 413 Ascension Pool

"It's you!" The palm of the Changsheng Patriarch was blocked by Xiu Liu. The sudden attack of the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword made the Changsheng Patriarch unable to dodge and four fingers of his palm were chopped off.

At this time, Patriarch Changsheng stared at Xiu Liu with his eyes, and had already recognized the other party's origin. After all, when Xiu Liu attained enlightenment, strange phenomena covered the area of ​​Qingcheng Mountain. There was no reason to hide it from Patriarch Changsheng.

"Ancestor, do you know me?" Xiu Liu looked at Ancestor Xuanji in surprise. He took back his own Blood-Transforming Divine Sword and put it back into his sleeve.

"I saw with my own eyes the scene when you attained enlightenment," said the Longevity Patriarch.

Xiu Liu suddenly realized what was going on: "So that's how it is."

But then I heard the Xuanji Patriarch say: "Do I have a grudge against you?"

"No grudge!" Xiu Liu shook his head.

Ancestor Xuanji watched Zhang Chen escape into the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, then turned his gaze to Xiu Liu: "Are you complaining?"

"No complaints!" Xiu Liudao said.

“In that case, why come to wade into muddy water?” The old ancestor of longevity said as he tried to mobilize his magical powers to repair the broken finger. He saw the broken finger on the ground fly up from the ground and reconnected, and the skin grew perfectly. However, the wound that was cut by the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword suddenly split open again, and blood flowed out continuously.

The Changsheng Patriarch's face suddenly changed, and he was secretly horrified in his heart: "What a weird knife! Specially designed to break the immortal body!"

Xiu Liu sighed when he heard this: "I don't want to come either, and I don't want to go against you, but I am under someone's control and have to come!"

"Then there is nothing to talk about?" The Longevity Patriarch frowned.

Xiu Liu nodded upon hearing this: "Of course there is no room for negotiation! Unless you defeat me, you can only stop here today."

Hearing this, the Changsheng Patriarch took a breath and said, "Okay! Then I will defeat you, and then capture that kid."

The ginseng fruit is of great importance and involves the matter of overcoming the tribulation. There is absolutely no reason for him to retreat.

The Patriarch of Longevity stretched out his hand, and the Ascension Pool rose into the air, becoming the size of a fist and floating in front of him. There was colorful light flowing inside, and it seemed to be constantly struggling against the suppression of the Ascension Pool.

A drop of jade liquid flew out of the Ascension Pool and landed on the severed palm of the Longevity Patriarch. Then, the power of the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword at the severed palm was actually washed away.

Then a ray of light burst out from the Ascension Pool in the hands of the Patriarch and smashed towards Xiu Liu. Xiu Liu was holding the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword, with a layer of blood light covering his body, and he fought with the Patriarch of Longevity.

The battle was earth-shattering, the sun and moon were dimmed, and the mountains lost their color. Fortunately, this place was the main vein of Qingcheng Mountain, protected by dragon energy. The two of them fought back and forth, their fists and feet kept fighting, and the power of the law burst out, but they could not do anything to the Qingcheng Mountain.

Inside the Nine-bend Yellow River formation, Zhang Chen put Xu Erniu down and turned to look outside the formation. Seeing Xiu Liu and the Great Master of Longevity fighting, he couldn't help but sigh softly, "Xiu Liu is no match for the Great Master of Longevity. The power of the Ascension Pool is too strong, surpassing the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword. In addition, this place is the Great Master of Longevity's home ground, and with the blessing of the power of the earth, it's only a matter of time before Xiu Liu is defeated."

Zhang Chen turned his head and looked at Xu Erniu. Seeing Xu Erniu being immobilized by the immobilization talisman, the girl's eyes were filled with shock and disbelief. She sighed softly again:
"I know you have a lot of doubts in your mind. I will remove the immobilization talisman for you right now. Don't panic and run around. This formation is very fierce, so you won't get hurt."

As he spoke, Zhang Chen collected the immobilization talisman and looked at Xu Erniu nervously, fearing that the girl would overreact. But in fact, Xu Erniu was very quiet, looking at Zhang Chen quietly, with tears in her eyes: "Zhang Chen, why did you betray the master? Why did you assassinate the master?"

"If I say that all this is done out of necessity for self-protection, would you believe it?" Zhang Chen smiled bitterly upon hearing this.

Xu Erniu stared at Zhang Chen with her eyes fixed on him. After a moment's silence, she sighed softly, "I believe you had no choice! But the Grandmaster has been very kind to us. Now that you have betrayed the Grandmaster, I... I don't know what to do. Is there any misunderstanding between you and the Grandmaster? If you can talk it out, that would be great! I am willing to be your lobbyist."

Zhang Chen smiled bitterly upon hearing this, and looked at Xu Erniu with a pair of eyes. He had a thousand words in his mind, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he just said, "There is absolutely no misunderstanding!"

Xu Erniu fell silent again after hearing this. She had misunderstood Zhang Chen in her heart. She thought of Zhang Chen's methods at the foot of the mountain, and then looked at Xiu Liu who was fighting with the ancestor in the outside world. She recognized Xiu Liu's methods. She had used them when Xiu Liu massacred the bandits. So she misunderstood that Zhang Chen and Xiu Liu had a deep hatred with the ancestor.

"Today I will have a battle with the master. We must decide the winner and the loser, and decide whether to live or die. Who will you help then?" Zhang Chen asked.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the little girl sighed: "I will never ask the Grandmaster to kill you! Even if I die, I will never let the Grandmaster hurt you in the slightest."

Xu Erniu's words had a lot of meaning, Zhang Chen heard it, and felt touched, thinking that it was worth it to give everything for this girl. "What's the grudge between you and the master?" Xu Erniu asked in a low voice, the little girl folded her sleeves with both hands, her eyes full of tension.

Zhang Chen glanced at Xu Erniu, then turned his gaze to the battlefield outside the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation: "I can't say! I have my own difficulties! In short, the Changsheng Patriarch will definitely die!"

"You can't even tell me?" Xu Erniu whispered.

Hearing Xu Erniu's words, Zhang Chen stroked Xu Erniu's little head. He was afraid that if he told Xu Erniu about it, her spiritual faith would collapse and she would surely die in the future, or she might be troubled by inner demons and waste her time and delay her cultivation.

The two of them looked at each other, and Zhang Chen just touched the little girl's head. Now the little girl was as tall as Zhang Chen, but in Zhang Chen's eyes, Xu Erniu was still the little girl who peed on him that year.

"Xiu Liu is no match for the master. You'd better run away as soon as possible." Xu Erniu said to Zhang Chen in a low voice with worry in her voice.

Hearing Xu Erniu's words, Zhang Chen smiled bitterly: "Run? Where to run? Where can I run to? With my current cultivation level, running down the mountain now is equivalent to going to die directly. If I rely on the natural defenses of the formation, maybe I can still deal with the ancestor."

At this point, Zhang Chen put down his hand that was stroking the little girl and said, "Erniu, if I'm alive, that's fine. But if I'm dead, you must find a chance to escape when the Patriarch is not at Wuzhuang Temple. In the future, you don't have to regard the Patriarch as your master, and you must not believe anything the Patriarch says."

Xu Erniu was stunned when she heard this: "Why?"

"Do you believe me?" Zhang Chen said again.

"Of course I believe you!" Xu Erniu said, "But why don't you want me to believe in the master?"

Zhang Chen did not explain after hearing this, but said in a very serious voice: "Just listen to me, and remember, I will never harm you!"

At this point, Zhang Chen turned his head and said to Xu Erniu very seriously: "You must always believe that I will never hurt you! No matter what I do, it's for your own good!"

Listening to Zhang Chen's serious words, Xu Erniu was stunned for a moment, then said very seriously: "Okay! I believe you!"

Zhang Chen smiled when he heard this. He liked Xu Erniu's trust, which was rare.

The two men above were fighting fiercely, causing the earth to collapse and the mountains to break. The blood and the ochre light kept colliding, and the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword evolved into a blood-red river. In that blood river, there were countless blood sea monsters roaring to the sky, jumping out of the water and rushing towards the Ascension Pool.

The Ascension Pool was surrounded by green light and emitted a majestic and profound sound. The sound waves twisted and fluctuated in the void, and all the monsters in the sea of ​​blood were shattered before they could get close to the Ascension Pool.

"Brother, your helper seems to be not so good. That big pool is too powerful. It seems that your helper doesn't have the upper hand at all." Even with Xu Erniu's level of cultivation, she could roughly see that Xiu Liu's situation seemed not to be very good at this moment.

"Sir, do you have any other ideas? If you don't have any other means, I'm afraid I'll have to die here." Xiu Liu couldn't hold on any longer and shouted to Zhang Chen, his voice full of anxiety.

"Retreat into the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and we'll find a chance to break out." Zhang Chen ordered Xiu Liu.

Upon hearing this, Xiu Liu's figure flashed, and the river of blood in the sky converged and turned into a blood-transforming divine sword. Then he was hit by the ascension pool and flew out.

Xiu Liu took the opportunity to turn into blood light and arrived in front of the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation in a few flashes. Facing the rolling yellow sand, he dived in without hesitation.

As soon as Xiu Liu entered the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, he felt an indescribable terrifying aura sweeping up and pressing towards him with great force. That kind of great terror surged into his soul, and even though he had already achieved the Dao, he still found it difficult to control that state of mind.

He had a feeling that as long as the formation before him was activated, he would surely die.

"What are you standing there for?" Zhang Chen saw that Xiu Liu was frightened by the formation and had the urge to turn around and run away. He couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart: "Xiu Liu's state of mind is much worse after all. This guy's strength is all acquired by devouring others. His state of mind is not worthy of his strength."

"Sir, this formation is so terrifying! How can there be such a terrifying thing in the world?" Xiu Liu asked in panic, then took a step forward, twisted his body several times, and quickly stood beside Zhang Chen, with a look of horror in his eyes.

Zhang Chen smiled calmly upon hearing this: "You are really surprised by something you haven't seen before! A mere formation scares you like this? Xiu Liu, you need to practice more. This is really embarrassing for me."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Xiu Liu smiled awkwardly: "It's not that I'm incompetent, but this formation is really terrifying. Only a person like you can remain calm in the face of such a formation. How dare I compare with you."

(End of this chapter)