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Chapter 158 The one who killed you was Cao Wunian from the White Bone Sect
The exchange will continue.

In the second round, Xiao Chen took out fifty bottles of Blood-Stirring Pills.

Once again, it attracted everyone's attention.

Because this elixir can improve combat capabilities, it is also limited.

And like the Iron Bone Pill, this is a new type of pill that was only discovered a few months ago and has not been in stock before.

Currently, only three channels, Lingyuan Sect, Lihuo Sect, and Sihai Sect, can obtain it.

Everyone looked at Xiao Chen with curiosity and confusion in their eyes.

I can’t figure out how he got so many new pills.

"Blood-piercing Pills are also a medicine from the Divine Fire Sect. They can stimulate the potential of cultivators during battle, temporarily increasing the power of spells by 10% to 20% for an hour."

"The price is the depletion of one's own vitality. For the next six hours, one will be weak."

Xiao Chen smiled and stated his conditions: "I still want to exchange for various spiritual objects for cultivation."

However, this time, only two people took out spiritual objects for trading.

There were originally few top-level wood-type spiritual objects, and eight of them had already been replaced, so everyone's stock had been used up.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, I have three ounces of Flame Spirit Sand here. I wonder if I can exchange it for three bottles of Blood-Stabbing Pills."

Just as the atmosphere was about to become dull, a masked, tall, thin monk suddenly spoke up and proposed new terms of exchange.

This is also one of the characteristics of the exchange meeting.

Participants can negotiate with each other and use different items as bargaining chips. As long as they can convince the other party, a deal can be reached.

When Xiao Chen saw the familiar flaming spiritual sand, his eyes lit up.

After he obtained the advanced skills of "Luo Tian Xuan Huo Ya" last time, he was thinking about finding some more Flame Spirit Sand to facilitate his practice in the next three realms.

Especially now that he had the Yang Fire Seal in his hand, the power of his fire-based skills had been greatly enhanced, and it was definitely worth practicing first.

But I never had the chance to collect the red flame spirit sand before.

Since I met it here, I naturally couldn't miss it: "Of course no problem, I just happen to need some Flame Spirit Sand as well."

Seeing this, the others took out their remaining things in exchange.

Although Xiao Chen emphasized that he only collected the Flame Spirit Sand, the remaining dozens of bottles of Blood-Stirring Pills were also snatched away.

After all, the Blood-Linging Pill is the kind of thing that only needs to be replaced with one bottle as a backup, and it is also useful.

The Flame Spirit Sand happens to be one of Hezhou's specialties, and many people present have some stock in their hands.

Three rounds of exchanges were subsequently carried out.

However, after the previous two rounds of selection, Xiao Chen no longer had anything he wanted to exchange.

He simply took out two earth-level spells and a complete set of talisman-making tools from his storage bag. These things were all contributed by Lu Wuqiang enthusiastically.

A simple auction was conducted on the spot with spirit stones as the condition.

Successfully exchanged for 2,900 spirit stones.

The last round of the exchange meeting was over at 2:15 AM.

Qiu Qichen invited everyone to stay in the guest room to rest, and specially arranged a new guest room for Xiao Chen.

This time the room was located next to the pond, with half of the room hanging over the water.

From the hollow floor inside the house, you can see the koi swimming in the pond.

The biggest feature of this room, besides the night view, is that it is not prone to fire.

The next morning, Xiao Chen came to the living room in the middle courtyard early to say goodbye to Qiu Qichen.

Unexpectedly, I saw everyone gathered in the yard, arguing fiercely.

"It must be the work of the White Bone Sect. They had a precedent back then."

"Not necessarily. The White Bone Sect has almost disappeared in the past year. I think it's the Divine Fire Sect that's trying to cause trouble."

"Alas, no matter what, something like this actually happened during the New Year. The world is not peaceful."

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Xiao Chen inquired carefully and found out that a major robbery had occurred in the Black Flame Mountains last night.

The Black Flame Mountains are located at the junction of Wanhua Valley and Lingyuan Sect. The mountains are rich in a mineral called Flame Crystal Stone.

This thing is not very valuable, it is a very common raw material for making fire talismans.

There are many other places of production, but they are relatively scattered.

Generally speaking, this thing is not worth the effort of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but the Flame Crystal Stone has a unique characteristic.

That is, this thing is not stable, and the fire spiritual power contained in it can be detonated by attacks of fire spells.

Moreover, when a piece of fire crystal explodes, it can also cause the other fire crystals within one foot to explode together.

If enough fire crystals are piled together, they can be used to create a violent explosion.

For this purpose, Lingyuan Sect arranged a cultivator at the seventh level of foundation building there, who was specifically responsible for guarding the warehouse where the fire crystal stones were stored.

The result happened at 10:00 PM last night.

Suddenly, a demon cultivator broke into the spiritual mine, killed the guarding cultivator directly, blew up the warehouse and stole all the fire crystals stored therein.

A cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage died in battle, and the whereabouts of a large number of Fire Crystals are unknown.

Such bombshell news spread throughout the entire Lingyuan Sect overnight.

Some attentive people immediately remembered that a similar thing had happened more than 80 years ago.

That incident was also during the Chinese New Year. A demon cultivator from the White Bone Sect raided the spirit mine and robbed a large number of fire crystal stones.

Then, on the day before the Lantern Festival, they were all buried in a city and set on fire.

All the mortals and Qi-refining cultivators in the city, tens of thousands of people in total, were blown to ashes.

The only surviving patriarch of a small family who was in the foundation-building stage had his head cut off by the evil cultivator and hung on an iron stake in the middle of the sea of ​​fire.

Due to the heavy casualties, the impact was also very serious.

To this day, there is only a small town there, and it has failed to regain its prosperity.

For many foundation-building cultivators, the events of eighty years ago were not particularly long ago. Some older cultivators even personally participated in the subsequent rescue operations.

At almost the same time this time, some demonic cultivators also stole a large number of fire crystals.

Many monks immediately began to worry whether a similar tragedy would happen again.

Especially the foundation-building cultivators in some small towns are even more worried that the place where they are will be chosen as a target by the evil cultivators.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, please be extra careful these past few days."

Qiu Qichen sent Xiao Chen out, and at the same time reminded him: "I heard that fellow Taoist is in Qingyang Mountain, so it's better not to go to Qingyang County recently."

“In all things, be prepared for the worst.”

He certainly meant well, but it's hard to say.

When Xiao Chen heard the three words "White Bone Sect", he felt that it was most likely directed at him.

He nodded: "Thank you for your concern, Fellow Daoist Qiu. I will pay attention to it."

At the same time, he secretly decided not to go to Qingyang County for the next month. It wasn't because he was afraid of retaliation from the White Bone Sect, but because he didn't want to implicate innocent people.
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Inside Lingyuan Sect.

Master Gongliang from Tianji Pavilion was sitting cross-legged with a frown on his face.

Several Jindan Zhenren waited quietly by the side, paying attention to the results of the divination.

In the huge sect hall, besides the Jindan Zhenren, there was only the Lingyuan Sect leader and two boys responsible for serving tea.

The rest of the monks, including the Great Elder Yao Dehai, were stopped outside the hall and waited for news.

The cultivator originally invited by Lingyuan Sect to be responsible for the calculation was just a disciple of Master Gongliang.

The cultivators of their lineage practiced the art of foresight.

Through specific rituals, one can get a glimpse into future changes in the situation.

As long as they can locate the location of the incident, Lingyuan Sect can naturally send people to ambush in advance.

But yesterday, when deducing the whereabouts of the Fire Crystal Stone, the other party suddenly seemed to have calculated something extraordinary.

He was so shocked that he vomited blood and then fell into a coma for the whole night.

The first thing he said after waking up was that he had miscalculated the time, but he accidentally predicted the fall of Luoyan Mountain.

This was no joke and it immediately alarmed the Golden Core Master of Lingyuan Sect.

So Master Gongliang from Tianji Pavilion also rushed over to find out what was going on.

After the master and disciple communicated privately, they set up the ceremony again and did the divination themselves.

"Pfft~!"

Master Gongliang's eyes suddenly widened and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

The blood fell to the ground and immediately turned black, even emitting wisps of black smoke.

"Fellow Daoist Gongliang, are you okay?"

Master Leiyin hurried forward and asked with concern.

Behind him, True Man Yusha and True Man Mingyan of the Sihai Sect looked at each other, with solemn expressions in their eyes.

For a third-level fortune teller to suffer such a severe backlash, something quite serious must have happened.

“Cough! Cough cough~!”

Master Gongliang bent over and coughed several times, with shock and anger in his eyes.

He sorted out his thoughts for a moment before speaking carefully: "I saw something not so good."

"The murderer who took the Flame Crystal Stone this time was a demonic cultivator from the White Bone Sect. He blew up Qingyang County, causing tens of thousands of people to die in the sea of ​​fire."

Master Leiyin nodded, indicating that he had memorized the location.

Several real people remained silent, waiting for more important news.

If one were only speculating on the actions of a foundation-building cultivator, it would definitely not result in the injury of a third-level hexagram master.

Master Gongliang paused for a moment, a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes.

There are two prices to pay for divination. The first is for the fortune teller to deduce the future himself.

The second time he told others the results of his calculation.

The more important the matter, the more serious the cost of leakage.

After hesitating for a moment, Master Gongliang slowly continued, "Just after Qingyang was ravaged, Wangyan Mountain was also besieged by the Divine Fire Cult."

When he said this, Master Leiyin was shocked.

Currently, the front line of confrontation between Lingyuan Sect and Shenhuo Sect is Luoyan Mountain, which is a full 500 miles away from Wangyan Mountain.

If the result of the divination is true, it means that before the Lantern Festival, the Divine Fire Sect will break through the defense formation of Luoyan Mountain and advance 500 miles in one fell swoop.

The battles between monks are different from those against mortal armies.

Since they are all practitioners, there are no natural barriers for them to rely on.

Instead, they used important spiritual veins as checkpoints, deployed defensive formations along the spiritual veins, and formed strongholds that were extremely difficult to break through.

Lingyuan Sect currently only has three lines of defense: Luoyan Mountain, Wangyan Mountain, and Yuanci Peak.

Once Luoyan Mountain falls and Wangyan Mountain is surrounded, the Divine Fire Sect can directly threaten the gate of Lingyuan Sect.

After saying this, Master Gongliang suddenly had a lot more white hair on his head, and he looked like he had aged ten years in an instant.

At the same time, he began to breathe heavily, and it took a long time before he could breathe a little easier.

All the Jindan Zhenren around were struck by lightning and were so shocked by the bad news that they were speechless.

After a while, Master Leiyin stretched out his hand and made a fist. The two boys who were responsible for serving tea had no time to react and fell to the ground on the spot.

Then he looked at the leader of Lingyuan Sect: "You go out first and pretend that you didn't hear anything. Don't say a word." Under normal circumstances, Luoyan Mountain would never fall suddenly.

The most important thing now is to block the news while finding out what the variables are in advance.

The Lingyuan Sect's leader took two steps, then turned back and asked, "Qingyang... do we still need to send someone to rescue him?"

Lei Yin Zhenren shook his head: "This is a serious matter, don't act rashly."

“Just do what you’re supposed to do.”

The results of divination are not necessarily accurate. It is just a deduction and there may be variables.

If you interfere with the evolution of things, it is likely to cause unpredictable changes.

Whether it gets better or worse, the situation will get out of control, making the results of this divination no longer reliable.

In that case, it would be even more difficult to find out the reason for the fall of Luoyan Mountain in advance through the hexagrams, and thus prevent the invasion of the Divine Fire Sect.

Therefore, what Master Leiyin meant was to turn a blind eye to the Qingyang calamity and pretend to be unaware in order to avoid uncontrollable situations.

The leader of Lingyuan Sect opened and closed his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

In the end, he said nothing, lowered his head and walked out.

Inside the sect hall, all the Jindan Zhenren were lost in deep thought.

Outside the hall, facing the inquiries of Yao Dehai and others, the head of Lingyuan Sect pretended to be nonchalant and casually brushed it off: "Just handle it according to the usual practice."

Of course, Lingyuan Sect is not completely inexperienced in such matters.

Danger warnings were quickly issued to all strongholds.

Notify all major families in the territory in advance that the demonic cultivators taking action this time are extremely powerful. Cultivators below the ninth level of foundation building should refrain from acting alone in the near future.

At the same time, a bounty was posted for the demon cultivator. Whoever could stop the other party from taking back the Flame Crystal Stone in time would receive double the merit and points.

This is to mobilize the independent cultivators who have reached the great perfection of foundation building and several demon-killing guards to actively search for the traces of the demon cultivators.

These are normal responses.

On the other side, Xiao Chen had also returned to Qingyang Mountain.

The first thing he saw when he entered the spiritual mine was a plump figure waiting on the hillside. It was Chang Shunping with a serious look on his face.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Xiao, you're back."

"This is terrible! The Flame Crystal from the Black Flame Mountains has been stolen."

Chang Shunping walked closer and said, "After receiving the warning this morning, I asked my friends about it."

"I heard that this time it was the monks from the White Bone Sect who did this. They are damn beasts these days. They are going to commit another sin of killing."

He recounted the events of eighty years ago.

Then he became worried: "Fellow Daoist Xiao, what if he wants to come to Qingyang?"

Xiao Chen comforted him: "It's okay. I'm not afraid of him coming to Qingyang. I'm just afraid that he won't come here, but will go somewhere else and harm others."

It is no exaggeration to say that he is not afraid of anyone in Hezhou except a few Jindan Zhenren.
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Chang Shunping heard this and hesitated to speak.

He was thinking exactly the opposite. He was not afraid that the demon cultivator would go to other places, but he was afraid that he would come to Qingyang.

But it’s not appropriate to say this.

So I took the initiative to change the subject and introduced other interesting things that had happened recently.

While the two were talking, an old voice suddenly shouted from outside.

"Xiao Chen, come out and die!"

The other party used his magic power to amplify his voice, and everyone in the Qingyang Spirit Mine could hear it clearly.

Chang Shunping looked back and his expression suddenly changed: "Oh no, it's the demon cultivator from the White Bone Sect."

Xiao Chen also turned his head and looked. The other party was standing at the foot of Qingyang Mountain, about five hundred feet away from them.

He was dressed in a black robe and a hat that covered his features. In his hand he held a bone staff with a complete skull on top.

At this time, they were constantly taking out the Fire Crystals and burying them at the foot of the mountain.

While burying, he shouted: "Don't think that you can be safe just by hiding in the defensive formation of the spiritual mine."

"The Fire Crystals in my hand are enough to flatten the entire Qingyang Mountain!"

Xiao Chen laughed when he heard this. The other party was quite careful and knew how to avoid his formation.

Although the Qingyang Spirit Mine does not have a defensive magic circle, if the opponent dares to come in directly, the Yellow Wind Quicksand Formation buried in advance can directly trap him.

However, he wouldn't think that without the formation, he wouldn't be able to deal with him.

Upon hearing this, Chang Shunping quickly reminded: "Fellow Daoist Xiao, don't fall for his tricks."

"I have a signal arrow here. We can just hold on in the spirit mine and wait for help."

"Now that the Demon Slayers are patrolling everywhere, it will be easy for us to wait for reinforcements."

Xiao Chen waved his hand: "That's not necessary. Fellow Daoist Chang, please wait a moment. I'll be back soon."

After saying that, he flashed a few times and rushed out of the spiritual mine and came directly to the foot of Qingyang Mountain.

While offering the Golden Light Pearl and the Jade Ruyi, he looked around and said, "Your accomplices no longer need to hide. Come out and die."

Last time we killed two people from the White Bone Sect who had reached the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage. This time there must be at least three, right?

Unexpectedly, the demon cultivator opposite sneered: "Hmph, I am enough to deal with a fellow like you."

"Remember, the one who killed you was Cao Wunian from the White Bone Sect."

At the same time, he also took out four porcelain bottles from his arms and threw them in four directions.

Suddenly, billowing black smoke rose up, covering all directions.

Xiao Chen was a little disappointed when he heard this: "Are you really the only one here?"

"Son, you're lying to me, aren't you? No one from your White Bone Sect is here to help him get revenge."

Cao Wunian clasped his hands together and said, "You are about to die and still don't know it. Come together!"

With his order, black smoke immediately engulfed Xiao Chen from all directions.

These black smokes are not ordinary smoke, but poisonous smoke produced by the secret method of the White Bone Sect.

There is no need to inhale it into the lungs. As long as it touches the cultivator's skin and flesh, it can penetrate into the dantian and burn the seven meridians and eight vessels.

Even if the monk has a protective aura, he is not afraid, because the poisonous smoke itself can erode his magic power.

Cao Wunian can also help attack from the side to create loopholes.

But what he didn't expect was that Xiao Chen didn't dodge or evade, nor did he make any defense.

Instead, he reached out and patted his storage bag, taking out three flying swords.

Cao Wunian was delighted at first, although he didn't know why the other party dared to ignore his poisonous smoke.

But any act of underestimating the enemy will come at a price.

If the other party thinks that his cigarettes are the same as those rubbish sold outside, he is totally wrong.

However, under Cao Wunian's expectant gaze, Xiao Chen was safe and sound, and he immediately summoned three flying swords.

In an instant, wind, thunder, and ice intertwined, forming a sword formation that completely trapped Cao Wunian.

"what happened?"

Cao Wunian was shocked and immediately tried to break out of the sword formation.

But the next moment, three top-grade magical flying swords simultaneously released several sword energies and rushed towards him to kill him.

Once the top-notch Small Three Talents Sword Formation trapped the opponent, unless the opponent also had three top-grade magic weapons to set up defense, even a cultivator who had reached the great perfection of the foundation building stage would not be able to escape death.

Xiao Chen doesn't have to do anything, just watch from the side.

"Three top-grade magic swords, who are you?"

"Bone Devouring Technique, combine it for me!"

"Ah~!"

A scream was heard, and Cao Wunian was unable to dodge, and half of his left arm was cut off and fell to the ground.

Xiao Chen was a little puzzled. Judging from their combat performance, the other party was not as good as the Lu brothers and sisters.

Is the Bai Gu Men crazy to send him here alone to die?

He raised the muddy water round shield and unfolded the tasseled brocade handkerchief, carefully guarding his surroundings.

According to normal thinking, the other party should have a backup plan.

"Death is not the end, but my new life!"

Cao Wunian's left leg was cut off by the sword energy again. Finally, he could no longer bear it and took out the "holy medicine" and swallowed it directly.

New bones quickly grew out of his lost limbs to replace them.

The surrounding sword energy was still attacking, but the effect was getting weaker and weaker.

A chop on the bones would only leave a mark, which would be quickly repaired by new bones.

"Damn it, you deserve to die!"

Cao Wunian's eyes were red, and his expression was crazy: "The holy medicine was originally meant to be left to the beasts of Lingyuan Sect, it's all your fault, you despicable villain."

Immediately afterwards, a shadow of Huangquan Zhenjun condensed in the air and then merged into one with him.

He had clearly already reached the great perfection of foundation building, but his aura suddenly began to rise.

It exceeded the upper limit of a foundation-building cultivator and even caused the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth to flow back.

hiss~!

Xiao Chen took a breath of cold air. What the hell did he eat?
Could it be that he is going to break through to the Golden Core stage right on the spot?
Fortunately, this vision only lasted for a cup of tea.

Then, under the infusion of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, Cao Wunian, who was already ten feet tall, opened his mouth and roared angrily, and pounced directly at Xiao Chen like a beast that had lost its mind.

The sword energy slashed at his body, but it could only cut off his flesh and blood, and could not hurt his bones at all.

"boom!"

Cao Wunian crashed into the Hunshui round shield, and the huge force immediately caused the Hunshui round shield to glow and become shaky.

If this kind of attack happens three or four more times, the muddy water round shield will be knocked away or scrapped on the spot.

"That's it?"

Xiao Chen simply took back his magic weapon.

He thought the other party had prepared some powerful means, but he didn't expect it to be just this level.

Cao Wunian is indeed extremely powerful now, and even the best magic sword cannot cut him.

But it was obvious that he had also lost his mind and could only attack with his great strength.

But no matter how strong you are, you have to be able to hit the person.

Seeing Cao Wunian rushing up again, Xiao Chen's body flashed with golden light, and he immediately stood fifty feet away.

Ever since he obtained the purple gold spiritual sand last time, his golden light has improved again.

Although he has not yet reached perfection, he is also not comparable to ordinary cultivators in the late stage of foundation building. It is extremely easy for him to dodge.

So Xiao Chen started playing hide-and-seek with the other party, circling back and forth in the same place.

This went on for a quarter of an hour.

Cao Wunian suddenly stopped and his eyes became clear again.

He looked at Xiao Chen who was safe and sound not far away and stood there in a daze.

I can't understand why I haven't killed the other party even though I've used the holy medicine.

But before he could ask any questions, all the bones in his body turned into powder.

(End of this chapter)