Chapter 142: Chapter 143: Breaking Into the Valley
A ray of morning sunlight shot out from the end of the mountain range, landing on a towering peak.
Making the perennial snow appear even brighter.
The summer solstice had arrived, the snow constantly melted, turning into a small stream, gently flowing towards the Jade Valley at the foot of the mountain.
Two Black Wood Ants fell into the stream, also flowing downstream, but when they reached the valley entrance, they could not go any further.
Blocked by something transparent.
"Fourth Brother, we’re really lucky, two demon insects!"
A cultivator wearing Chu Family attire emerged from beside the stream, drew his flying sword, and slashed at the two Black Wood Ants.
Crack!
Immediately, a metallic clanging sounded, the two Black Wood Ants did not split into two immediately.
This surprised the cultivator.
"Fourth Brother, these demon insects are really tough, maybe we can gain something even if we don’t go to the auction!"
The cultivator struck again, this time a crimson sword light appeared on the sword, instantly slaying the two Black Wood Ants.
However, the so-called Fourth Brother emerged from the array, his face full of urgency.
"Mingde, quickly, we need to report to Eighth Uncle separately, these are cultivated spirit insects, not wild spirit insects, there might be an enemy attack!"
The broad-faced cultivator finished speaking and took out a jade talisman, but the next moment, countless thumb-sized Five-Colored Poison Bees surged out from beneath the stream.
These poison bees appeared from the water, forming a chongyun, several poison needles shot out immediately, along with Five Poisonous Fogs.
Although the two reacted very quickly, one was only at Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, and the other at Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.
They took out spirit shields to block the first layer of attack, but after being corroded by the poisonous fog, two silver needle sounds were heard.
Both cultivators were pierced through the forehead by silver needles, and lost their voices.
At this moment, several cultivators wearing Spirit-Blocking Robes walked out from the stream, fully covered except for a pair of menacing eyes.
They seemed to have anticipated this, drew their flying swords, and slashed at an array foundation.
In the next moment, the array of Jade Valley shook violently, flickering intermittently.
Inside the valley, sounds immediately began to emerge.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Countless spirit talismans appeared in the sky, and countless spirit talismans appeared underground.
All were means of communication!
However, these communication methods were blocked by a transparent spirit shield halfway, ultimately turning into spirit talismans that burned powerlessly in the air.
For this operation, an Isolation Array had naturally been arranged ahead of time, aiming to annihilate everything.
The Chu Family, evidently, would not stand by idly!
Dust clouds appeared in the sky, the entire valley echoed with rumbling sounds.
In the distance, a large number of Fire Pattern Rabbits appeared, each as big as a small wolf. As Tier One Middle-grade Spirit Beasts, their killing power was only slightly less than the charge of Forest Pigs.
After all, the spirit patterns on these Fire Pattern Rabbits were extremely hot.
And at critical moments, they could condense flame chains, but their chain coverage range was very short.
Nevertheless, when charging together, their momentum was still tremendous.
The lead Spirit-Blocking Robe cultivator then looked at a person nearby.
That person gestured again, and over three hundred Five Poison Bees appeared in the sky, releasing most of their Five Poisonous Fogs.
With the wind, it blew into the valley!
The Fire Pattern Rabbits instantly encountered the poisonous fog, some exhibited hallucinations, others began to scatter and flee, only a few managed to continue charging, but without any impact.
They were all slain by the lead flying swords spiritual artifact group.
For the Chu Family, using Fire Pattern Rabbits was an act of desperation.
For the Ye Family, it was nothing more than showing off their skills in front of an expert!
"Indeed, there is still an array!" Behind Ye Xingyu stood an Array Master.
They had long studied and understood that this Jade Valley was called the Water and Fire Formless Array, formed by the snow mountains and the earth fire within the valley, creating a grand array, with great power, comparable to a Tier Two Array, if controlled by Foundation Establishment cultivators, it might even be unable to breach with multiple Foundation Establishments.
Fortunately, the Water and Fire Array had already broken at one corner, greatly reducing its power.
And now, everyone within the Water and Fire Array discovered there was an array.
This made everyone’s expressions somewhat uneasy.
"This is just a Concealment Array, there might be Foundation Establishment cultivators inside!" That person spoke again.
The former brought joy, while the latter brought despair.
This time they hadn’t brought any Foundation Establishments.
The Concealment Array was also broken by someone.
Revealing the entire Jade Valley to the Spirit-Blocking Robe cultivators.
In the distance, Chu Family cultivators had also gathered completely, excluding the miners in the mine, over twenty cultivators appeared here.
The leading two cultivators had an overwhelming presence.
They were Foundation Establishment cultivators.
"I thought it was the Li Family and the Chen Family attacking us secretly, but it turned out to be the Ye Family!" The lead cultivator named Chu Xifeng, with an Early Stage of Foundation Establishment cultivation, was extremely proud.
Beside him was Chu Xixu, also with Foundation Establishment cultivation.
"It’s really strange, do you little mice think you can blackmail our Chu Family?"
"Every year, the most war losses, and the fewest clan members!"
Chu Xifeng kept speaking, but none of the Spirit-Blocking Robe cultivators opposite said a word. Instead, the leading cultivator tossed the Spirit Beast Bag into the sky.
A Tier Two Blood Eagle appeared in the sky, and a transparent spirit shadow appeared beside it.
The shadow was very illusory, but suddenly the sky changed, and before one knew it, an Octopus Spirit Beast appeared and spat out a large amount of ink.
Revealing the form of the Chameleon Poison Lizard.
"Truly young, did no elders from the Ye Family come this time? To stand out just because of such a probe?" The Foundation Establishment Cultivator took out a Jade Talisman, recording everything within it.
Thus, he didn’t worry about anyone from the Ye Family escaping, and even if they did leave, they could still press the Ye Family, as their second sister married a Taiyi Sect Elder.
They could even directly swallow up the Ye Family, making the Taihang Mountain Range one of the three major Foundation Establishment Clans.
Coupled with their schemes in the Taichang Market.
Their Chu Family would become the third Purple Mansion Clan!
Moreover, that is definitely not the end.
But first, they must slaughter all the Ye Family members!
To make them understand the consequences of offending the Chu Family.
Chu Xifeng took out a Flying Sword Spiritual Artifact, and also a Golden Binding Rope Spiritual Artifact.
Aiming first to trap the Blood Eagle in the sky, as the Tier Two Blood Eagle held the most potential for change.
The speed of the Golden Binding Rope Spiritual Artifact was incredibly fast, even if the Blood Eagle transformed into blood light, the golden light still pursued tightly.
"Chirp!" The Blood Eagle let out a long cry, a Blood Blade Technique slashing towards the Golden Binding Rope.
A sharp, ear-piercing screech echoed.
However, it’s clear that destroying a Tier Two Artifact is not easy; a loop actually wrapped around one of the Blood Eagle’s wings, suddenly reducing the Blood Eagle’s speed.
Chu Xifeng was overjoyed and drove the Flying Sword to slash at the Blood Eagle.
The flesh and feathers of a Tier Two Blood Eagle were quite considerable Spirit Stones.
Meanwhile, Chu Xixu attacked the Five-Colored Poison Lizard.
Covered in ink, the lizard lost its invisibility function, having to constantly unleash Earth Spike Skills.
Apart from the Foundation Establishment Cultivators standing together with the Tier Two Spirit Beasts, the Ye Family’s Five Poison Bees began shooting toxic needles once more!
The toxicity of these needles was extremely powerful, making those Chu Family members extremely fearful, wishing they could have two or three Spirit Shields.
And countless Magical Artifacts targeted the swarm, aiming to slaughter these Five Poison Bees.
However, the other cultivators of the Ye Family already charged in with spirit beasts of all colors.
These spirit beasts were fearless of death, for the Chu Family cultivators facing them, they had encountered beast tides, knowing that when they came, constant attack was necessary.
They also faced cultivators, knowing that reservation was needed to prevent sneak attacks!
But now they faced a combination of cultivators and spirit beasts!
They found themselves somewhat flustered.
The Ye Family could disregard the loss of spirit beasts, but they lacked such selfless mentality.
Hence, their formation quickly became disordered.
Luckily the Water and Fire Formless Array was activated, forming two spirit shadows of water and fire.
One could wildly spray ice cones, the other could wildly spray flames!
Both exerted spiritual energy fluctuations of Late Stage of First Tier.
Of course, these results were owing to the array being partially destroyed, otherwise, they would be even more challenging to face!
For a moment they held off the attack, but for the Chu Family cultivators, everyone pinned their hopes on Chu Xifeng and Chu Xixu.
The current situation indeed relied on this, as Chu Xifeng relentlessly pressured the Blood Eagle, leaving it battered and wounded.
And the Five-Colored Poison Lizard, under Chu Xixu’s suppression, fared no better.
Without the cover of invisibility, the lizard, despite angrily roaring, could not win against a cultivator equipped with three or four Tier Two Artifacts.
"Demon bird, where do you think you can run now?" Over there, Chu Xifeng’s Golden Binding Rope finally bound both wings of the Blood Eagle, rendering it speedless.
Chu Xifeng drew out the Flying Sword, and sword runes suddenly appeared, converging into a sword aura about a meter long.
"Whoosh!" Slashing toward the Blood Eagle!
Just as everyone thought the dust settled, suddenly from the stream, a cyan light shot out too fast, and then a figure wearing Cyan Scale Armor, his face also covered with Snake Scale Armor, emerged.
A cyan triangular pyramid artifact in his hand.
The artifact cut through the air faster than even gun-spear type artifacts!
In an instant it arrived!
At the moment, Chu Xifeng was wholly focused on the sword, unexpectedly facing a surprise attack, he hurriedly slapped down a Tier Two Spirit Talisman!
But this Tier Two Spirit Talisman could not stop the pyramid’s cyan light.
Swiftly piercing into Chu Xifeng’s chest.
Chu Xifeng stared blankly at the ambusher, not looking at the wound on his chest.
His gaze drifted, eventually sneering a little.
"Excellent Ye Family, excellent Ye Xueliang..."
The Tier Two Blood Eagle was also struck by the sword aura on its wing, leaving a crimson blood mark.
Severely wounded!
The cyan-scaled figure didn’t care about the rest, twisting with serpent-like movement, rushing towards Chu Xixu!
"Indeed, are all those half-beastmen from your Ye Family, you are demons, wielding demon techniques!" Chu Xixu roared!
Yet what met him was Ye Xueliang’s fierce onslaught.
Beside them, the Five-Colored Poison Lizard unceasingly summoned various Earth Spikes.
These Earth Spikes were all contaminated with venom!