Immortal Road.

Chapter 199: Tiankeng Ambush
In the next half month, undercurrents surged in Wangyue Fairy City.

The Lin Chamber of Commerce has encountered several waves of targeting by unknown forces and has suffered all-round suppression at every level including distribution, processing, review, supervision, and sales.

A large amount of seafood and spiritual products were left unsold, and all the cooperating merchants cancelled their orders. The Chamber of Commerce's employees were warned and even detained by the law enforcement monks in the city. Their business licenses were temporarily revoked, and they were required to make rectifications before they could be put back on the shelves.
Now Lin Shan has realized the influence of the Dai family, a family of cultivators, in Wangyue City. As expected of a mining giant, they can penetrate their connections into every aspect and obstruct him across the industry.

Moreover, as the boss behind the scenes, his cave residence was also discovered by others. The other party did not deliberately hide it, and several groups of people monitored him day and night every day.

The rule that fighting is not allowed in Wangyue City, Dai Family Jindan Zhenren has no intention of breaking it. This time is different from the attack on the Li Family Patriarch by others, but it is his personal matter. It is a bit difficult for him to handle it alone, but there are always more solutions than problems.

According to the Black Skull Demon Lord, a monk who had taken care of the city's internal management revealed that in half a month, they would be forced to be expelled by the Wangyue City Internal Affairs Department. If they left the city, they would be surrounded and killed!

Lin Shan realized that the situation was not good. The Jindan Zhenren of the Dai family had already begun to make calm arrangements. If he followed the pace of others, he would probably be caught in a passive position.

As long as they stayed in the city, they would not have to worry about their lives for the time being because of the rule that they could not fight. If they left the city and lost their safety, the Dai family would have no scruples. With their influence and spies in the cultivation world of Lu State, plus the personal pursuit of Jindan Zhenren, they would be unable to escape.

When the time comes, kill them, steal the Guild of Commerce tokens and land deeds, then go back to the city and swallow up all the property!
"What should we do now? If we stay here, we will die. Do we have to give up our property and flee early, swallowing our pride and suffering?"

Lin Shan discussed the matter with the Black Skull Demon Lord in the yard. Not to mention that the Lin Chamber of Commerce had assets worth two or three hundred thousand spirit stones, anyone would feel uncomfortable if they just abandoned them and ran away.

He still has the "channel" of seafood spirits that the Dai family wants. As long as he doesn't get this thing, the Dai family's Jindan Zhenren will not let him go. He will mobilize all forces to find him by digging deep into the ground. Don't even think about moving to another place to practice in peace.

Unless they leave Lu State directly and move out of the range that Dai family's influence can penetrate.

Otherwise you will be in trouble and never have peace!
But then again,

If he escaped now, it would not be a difficult task for him. With the 74 points of ancient rhyme in his hand, if he strengthened the "Wind Escape Talisman" into a minor magical talisman, he could at least run away from the enemy even if he couldn't win.

With the ancient rhyme reserves to back him up and the confidence to save his life in hand, he was not particularly panicked.

However, he originally planned to keep these ancient rhymes to prepare for his breakthrough to the Jindan stage. One must know that cultivation is the foundation of everything, and there is no need to strengthen material possessions in advance unless it is a critical moment.

Moreover, he had only been in Lu for more than ten years, and he felt quite comfortable practicing here peacefully. He had originally planned to practice until he reached perfection in the late stage of foundation building before going out to explore the world.

But if you think about it carefully, coming out of seclusion at that time would at most deepen your cultivation, and your strength would not increase much compared to now.

Being in the late stage of foundation building, whether it is perfect or not has little to do with combat power, so it is not impossible to come out now.

However, the Lin's Chamber of Commerce is such a big business.
Lin Shan's nature of "valuing money over life" was fully exposed. He had been thinking about ways to break the impasse for the past half month. However, as a mining giant in the world of cultivation, the Dai family had deep roots and enormous power, and he really could not shake it.

The Black Skull Demon Lord's original body was an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage, and this clone had also recovered to the late Foundation Establishment stage early on. It didn't seem to be too afraid either, and instead asked Lin Shan a question.

"Brother, do you still remember what I told you when we passed through the Yinchuan market in Huainan in the Song Dynasty?"

Lin Shan's thoughts were suddenly interrupted and he didn't react for a moment.

"Do you mean."

"My stay in this world is limited. If I cannot recover to the Golden Core Stage within 30 years to extend the time of my advent, I will probably be forcibly recalled by the Hell World."

"Oh this. I almost forgot!"

Lin Shan slapped his head. Ever since Master Huang gave him the golden page of the contract and he signed a new contract with the Black Skull Demon Lord, he thought that this guy would have no chance to turn against him before he reached the Nascent Soul stage, so he put most of his thoughts aside.

Now if I calculate, it seems that nearly 27 years have passed since the last time I passed through Yinchuan Fangshi!

If the Black Skull Demon Lord cannot break through the Golden Core Stage within three years, he will probably lose such a helpful figure.

The Black Skull Demon King was reluctant to leave because he was eyeing the innate spiritual treasure in Lin Shan's hand, so the two of them had their own plans and neither of them wanted to leave the other for the time being.

"You are now in the late stage of foundation building, and you have obtained the konjac fruit. The only thing missing is..."

"The corpse of a Jindan-stage cultivator who had been in meditation for no more than three months!"

The Black Skull Demon Lord continued the conversation excitedly, but Lin Shan immediately realized.

wrong!

Just at this critical moment, when this guy was about to be summoned away by the original body, a Jindan stage cultivator suddenly came to cause trouble for the two of them. Is this really such a coincidence?

The Black Skull Demon Lord felt that the topic had been opened, and rubbed his bony hands with anticipation, and spoke out the plan he had conceived in the past few days to break the deadlock:

"I think we shouldn't rush to run away. We can set a trap and take the initiative to kill the Jindan-stage cultivator of the Dai family."

"I fucking know it!"

Lin Shan suddenly stood up and slammed the stone table hard, pointing at the guy's nose bridge in anger.

"You must have taken the initiative to show off your wealth and deliberately seduce others, right? You let the Jindan Zhenren of the Dai family think that we are fat sheep, so you lured him to make a move and achieve your goal!"

Although he has been in seclusion these years and doesn't know much about the outside world, but by connecting all these messy things together, how could he not guess the cause and effect of everything?
Although the "Lin's Chamber of Commerce" is getting bigger and bigger, if it wants to attract the attention of big capital in the world of cultivation, it will have to develop for at least several dozen or even hundreds of years. Only when it monopolizes and breaks the local market of Wangyue City and spreads to other immortal cities in Lu State will it be qualified.

It has only been developing in Wangyue City for more than ten years and has just started to make progress in the seafood industry. How could it possibly attract the attention of a cultivation family like the Dai family?

And he is also a mining giant!
They are in the mining industry, and they are bored all day long, but they pay attention to the New Star Chamber of Commerce in the aquatic industry. Isn't that crazy?
unless
This Jindan Zhenren of the Dai family has been investigated by this skeleton monster for many years and specially "screened"?
No wonder he never left the house and practiced quietly in the corner for more than ten years, but was still targeted for no reason. It turns out that there is a sixth brother around him!

Lin Shan figured out a lot of key points in an instant, turned around and stared at this guy.

The Black Skull Demon Lord was slightly embarrassed and touched the "slightly protruding" occipital bone behind his head:

"Brother, I have been in this world for 27 years. In less than 3 years, I will be forcibly repatriated. Therefore, it is urgent to recover to the Golden Core Stage. I have no choice but to resort to this desperate measure."

The Black Skull Demon Lord was afraid that he would feel that his motive for taking action was unjustifiable, so he specially explained:
“In fact, this master from the Dai family is a Jindan-stage cultivator who has made a breakthrough in the past ten years. He has a shallow background in the Dai family, a family of cultivators, and lacks connections and various resources, so he urgently needs to acquire industries in the cultivation world to expand his power.

When this person was transferred to Wangyue City, he accidentally learned about the Lin's Chamber of Commerce and thought that our industry had the opportunity to grow in the future and provide a lot of financial support for him to cultivate his power in the future. He wanted to acquire me, but I didn't agree. So he had other ideas and planned to kill us and then embezzle our industry."

Finally, it added: "If I recover to the Jindan stage, not only can I continue to stay in this world, but you will also have an extra high-level combat force under your command. Then it will be much safer to travel around the world of cultivation." Lin Shan sneered and did not continue to refute its little tricks. Now that the feud has been formed, he can only deal with it as it moves.

The Jindan-stage cultivator from the Dai family was lured into a sting operation and had the intention of committing murder for money, which shows that he is indeed not a good person.

However, the Black Skull Demon Lord had brought trouble upon himself without authorization, which made Lin Shan furious. Although it had always been a cooperative relationship with Lin Shan, as an alien creature summoned by him, it challenged his bottom line again and again.

Although it was restricted by the golden page of the contract and was not allowed to harm itself, since it dared to provoke a Jindan-stage cultivator, it meant that it was confident in its ability to deal with it and was prepared to go all out and make a huge bet.

After this crisis, Lin Shan made up his mind that once he broke through the Jindan stage and had the strength to walk the world of cultivation alone, he would no longer need this creature to stay with him. He would send it out to build his own power and search for ancient rhymes, just as a tool for harvesting.

This kind of time bomb could cause an accident at any time if kept by his side. Even though he has many cards that it is not aware of, he cannot completely entrust it with his trust. The only person he trusts in this world is himself.

However, now that he was being targeted by the Jindan Zhenren of the Dai family, he still had to respond seriously.

The spiritual awareness and attack range of Jindan stage cultivators are both over one mile, which is more than five times that of foundation building stage cultivators. The gap is enormous.

That is to say, when your spiritual consciousness is still wandering within a hundred meters, your opponent has already taken out his magic weapon and smashed it at you five hundred meters outside the range. Not only will you have no time to react, but you will also be unable to resist at all.

A head-on confrontation would definitely result in death.

However, he knew that the Black Skull Demon Lord must have some plans, otherwise he would not have done such a trick under the constraints of the contract. If he failed to defeat the Dai family's Jindan Zhenren, his clone would definitely be defeated, and the main body of Hell would also be affected by the backlash of the contract.

Lin Shan paced in the courtyard for a long time before he looked up and asked, "How sure are you?"

The Black Skull Demon Lord quickly assured: "Don't worry, I have acquired a large amount of materials in the past few years. With enough phantom wood, I can set up a super phantom formation and weaken his strength by 30%."

"Only 30%?"

"I also found out about a fatal tiankeng three thousand miles outside Wangyue City. We can use the terrain to set up a fatal formation and contain 30% of his combat power."

"Oh? That means after being weakened continuously, he can only exert 40% of his strength."

Lin Shan felt a little relieved. With multiple layers of ambushes and the use of the mountains and terrain, he began to compare the cards in his hand and repeatedly calculated the chances of winning this battle. To be on the safe side, he asked one last question.

"What is his own cultivation level?"

"Early stage of golden elixir."

……

The two of them discussed and finalized all the details in the yard. Finally, after they felt that they had a good chance of winning, they simply hid their bodies and fled from Wangyue City overnight, speeding all the way, rushing towards the northwest.

The next day, after hearing the report from his subordinates, Jindan Zhenren of the Dai family in the city did not expect that his opponent would dare to leave the city’s protection and escape early, so he hurried out of the city to chase him.

Lin Shan did not care about saving energy along the way and used the Wind Escape Talisman more than ten times in a row.

"Wow~"

I didn't notice it for a moment, and the high-level talisman that I had treasured for a long time suddenly became hot!

Lin Shan was startled and stopped urging the talisman immediately. He had no doubt that if he used it once more, the talisman would spontaneously combust with the wind.

After using it for so long, it seems that its service life is almost reaching its limit.

He sighed slightly, without showing too much surprise. The Wind Escape Talisman was indeed a good treasure during the Foundation Establishment Period, but now that he was already in the late stage of the Foundation Establishment, he had no pressure in dealing with cultivators of the same level, but facing high-level cultivators, the Wind Escape Talisman was not enough.

After all, it is just a high-level spell. It will only be meaningful if it is strengthened into a minor magical talisman.

However, I am about to break through to the Jindan stage. In comparison, it is more meaningful to leave Gu Yun for the breakthrough. There is no need to waste points on a consumable. Cultivation is the foundation of everything.

Moreover, he did not conceal his breath and traces on this trip. The Wind Escape Talisman was just to save time on distance so that he could use the saved time to set up the formation.

The speed of full-flight flight in the Foundation Establishment Stage is two hundred miles per hour. As a wind-type cultivator, Lin Shan can reach four hundred miles per hour. With the help of the Wind Escape Talisman, he saved several hundred miles. He arrived at the Juesha Tiankeng, three thousand miles west of Wangyue City, overnight.

At this time, the Dai family's Jindan Zhenren had just received the news and rushed out of the city.

"The speed of a Jindan-stage cultivator is close to 500 miles per hour, which translates to 1,000 miles per hour, or about three hours."

Lin Shan felt that time was running out. Seeing that the Black Skull Demon Lord had already started busy making arrangements, he felt a little anxious, but he still took out the Void Star Plate.

In the Juesha tiankeng, which is about a hundred miles in radius, the air is thick with gloomy clouds and there are many deep holes as big as bowls on the ground, leading to unknown places, spewing out foul evil.

This magical treasure can detect and utilize the earth veins, assist in setting up formations and be used as a formation plate. Sending it out at this time can greatly increase your side's chances of winning.

The spirit Xiao Xin emerged from the spiritual treasure and followed Lin Shan's instructions to help the Black Skull Demon Lord. The two of them were more efficient in setting up the formation together. In terms of formation attainments, the Black Skull Demon Lord was just a formation master, while Xiao Xin had the virtual star disk to assist in deduction, which was equivalent to a formation master.

It's just that the weapon spirit has great accomplishments but lacks flexibility, and the methods of arranging various formations and diagrams also need to be learned and accumulated through acquired experience.

So in the end it was almost always the Black Skull Demon Lord who was setting up the formation, with Xiao Xin helping him. While this guy was frantically directing Xiao Xin to control the evil energy in the earth veins, he was also secretly learning Xiao Xin's formation techniques.

Two hours later, the formation was set up, and the spirit Xiao Xin returned to the main body of the spiritual treasure. The virtual star disk flew to the center of the tiankeng and slowly sank into the ground.

After the explanation from the Black Skull Demon Lord, Lin Shan roughly understood the functions of the two large formations.

[Phantom Spirit Heart-Stirring Array]: A maze illusion array made of a large amount of phantom wood as the main material. Being in it feels like being in a deep mountain forest, with dense trees overlapping your vision and no way out under the endless blue waves.

[Five Ghosts Yin Sha Formation]: The Yin Sha Qi gathered in the Juesha Tiankeng here condensed into five ghost generals, each of which has a strength close to the Jindan stage, and can launch sneak attacks, defend, and contain harassment, but there is a worry that they will not obey orders and rebel. Fortunately, there is a Lingbao Xuxing Plate to suppress the center of the formation. These ghost generals formed by the evil spirit can only obey orders obediently, and they will also receive a steady stream of evil spirit support.

Lin Shan nodded. These two formations were indeed master-level formations that could rival the Jindan period. What the Black Skull Demon Lord had said before that each formation could offset 30% of the strength was probably not a lie.

Now everything is ready, all we have to do is wait quietly for the arrival of the Dai family's Jindan Zhenren.

(End of this chapter)