Chapter 22 Struggle
In the pitch-black cave, a Wu family monk was limping forward slowly. After walking dozens of feet, he passed by a cave paved with monster bones. Suddenly, there was a sound coming from the front. There was a faint blue light, and he thought he had found the exit, so he quickly moved forward and quickened his pace.
"This is a water spirit fruit, haha. I didn't expect there to be a water spirit fruit tree in this place. I've made a fortune this time."
Wu Ziyuan looked at the water spirit fruit tree emitting dazzling blue light in front of him, with excitement on his face. He did not notice at all that a figure was slowly approaching him not far away in the darkness.
"who is it!"
"Friend Wu Dao, it's me. I'm Du Yucheng from the Du family. Please keep your voice down. This seems to be a monster's lair."
A figure slowly appeared in the darkness, with a look of panic on his face. He was a Du family monk.
"It turned out to be Brother Du, I was shocked."
Wu Ziyuan saw that Du Yucheng's injuries were not much better than his own, and he was also looking embarrassed. There was also a large piece of mud on his face, which looked a little funny.
Yesterday in the woods, he also saw this person. He was about the same age as him. He was around thirty years old. He was also considered a young monk of this generation. He was only at the fifth level of Qi refining. He was not taken seriously in the eyes of the Du family monks. Not as good as his status in the Wu family.
In Wu Ziyuan's eyes, Du Yu was just average and his cultivation was not as good as him. He slowly let down his guard and put away the flying sword in his hand.
It can be said that these two people and Song Qingming were indeed unlucky. When the three of them were collecting monster materials at the edge of the water pool, because they were relatively close to the center of the water pool, they were all swept into the whirlpool created by the black feathered python before they had time to react. .
Among the three, Song Qingming fell closer to the entrance of the cave and quickly found the exit. However, because the place where he fell was too far from the entrance of the cave, the two stumbled in the wrong direction and came to the black python's lair. This water spirit fruit tree can be regarded as a coincidence.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, this one does look like a water spirit fruit tree. It's a pity that the water spirit fruits on the tree will take at least hundreds of years to mature. Now even if you pick a spirit stone, you can't sell it. It's of no use to us. It's such a pity. ." Du Yucheng sighed with regret after finishing speaking.
After hearing this, Wu Ziyuan rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Du, this is wrong. Although this water spirit fruit is useless to us now, this fruit tree is a second-level spirit fruit tree and is valuable. As long as we can go back alive, , If you report this matter to the family, you will definitely get a lot of rewards, don't you think so?"
After Wu Ziyuan finished speaking, there was a smile on his face, as if he had made another meritorious service in his mind and was rewarded by the family just like last time. As long as he told the family about the news after he left, the clan leader would definitely be happy again. Just by looking at him, he can also get more cultivation resources within the clan.
After hearing this, Du Yucheng opened his mouth. After thinking for a while, he seemed to suddenly realize it. He patted his head gently and nodded: "Brother Wu is right. Why didn't I think of that just now? Brother Wu is still smart. "
Seeing that Du Yucheng had no objection, Wu Ziyuan continued, "It's just that this place is very dangerous. The monster that just dragged us here is an unknown monster. It must have great magical powers. We'd better find a way to escape first."
"I've been around here since I was involved. There are caves everywhere in this cave, and I haven't found a way out. Brother Du, you have a bright idea, tell us where we should go," Du Yucheng said with a simple face.
Wu Ziyuan thought for a while and then said: "When I was sucked into the whirlpool, I seemed to see someone who was sucked in with us. Brother Du, can you see this person?"
Du Yucheng lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said loudly:
"By the way, Brother Wu, I just found a corpse in a cave ahead. It seems to be a member of your family. I don't know if he was involved in the cave with us."
"Do you know which member of my family it is? Take me to see him quickly." Wu Ziyuan asked nervously.
"I was shocked by the corpse just now. I didn't get closer to take a closer look. I just saw that he was dressed similar to Brother Wu. He should be a member of your family. Don't worry. The corpse is in a cave not far ahead. , I’ll take you there right now.”
Du Yucheng led Wu Ziyuan and walked dozens of steps deeper into the cave before arriving at a cave. Sure enough, a corpse appeared not far ahead. Du Yucheng ran forward to take a look and shouted: " Brother Wu, this person seems to be the head of your family."
"Clan leader. How could this happen?" Upon hearing this, Wu Ziyuan ran over in a panic.
Wu Ziyuan ran to Du Yucheng and took a look. Lying on the ground was a corpse with only the upper half left. When he took a step forward and took a closer look, he realized something was wrong. The clothes this man was wearing were clearly unique to the Liu family monks. The silver cassock was about to turn back to question Du Yucheng, but at this time, a bright green dagger had penetrated his chest from the back.
"Du Yucheng, you, why are you doing this."
Du Yucheng changed his honest demeanor and showed a sinister smile.
"Humph, this water spirit fruit tree. You actually want to tell the family what the Wu family can give you, and throw dozens of spirit stones at you like a dog. Do you, an idiot, know the true value of this water spirit fruit tree?"
"If I tell the Xiaoyao Sect directly about the water spirit fruit tree, there will definitely be no problem in joining the Xiaoyao Sect in the future. Maybe I can exchange it for a Foundation Establishment Pill right away. How can a short-sighted person like you deserve to share it with me? this."
"Fellow Daoist Du, don't kill me. I am willing to swear a blood oath. After I go out, I will never reveal what happened today. I will pretend that I have never been here." Wu Ziyuan begged with a look of horror.
"Brother Wu, don't you understand? As long as you live, you are a threat to me. I never like to be threatened." Du Pingtao sneered, with a fierce look on his face, and kicked Wu Ziyuan down again. On the ground.
"Du Yucheng, do you really want to be so vicious? If you kill me, aren't you afraid that my Wu family will know about this in the future?"
"Vicious, haha, isn't the world of immortality always like this? Even if your surname is Du, I will still attack today. As long as I can build the foundation, I can step on my feet regardless of the Wu family or the Du family, hahahaha .”
Wu Ziyuan struggled on the ground in despair, as if he wanted to stand up. Just when he was about to stand up, a cold light flashed across his throat, and Wu Ziyuan's body fell down unwillingly, and was gone. movement.
"It's really unfair that a fool like you can practice faster than me."
After Du Yucheng was drawn into the cave, he happened to land here. He immediately discovered the body of the Liu family elder. After secretly taking away the storage bag from the Liu family elder, Wu Ziyuan arrived first by accident. There is the water spirit fruit tree.
After seeing the water spirit fruit tree, he was shocked. He secretly planned to go directly to Xiaoyao Sect after leaving here and exchange the water spirit fruit tree for what he wanted.
Just when he wanted to leave here first, he heard Wu Ziyuan's footsteps coming here, so he could only hide in the dark depths of the cave.
Wu Ziyuan was the only one who came, and he happened to find the Shuiling Fruit Tree. Du Yucheng became murderous. He wanted to take advantage of the dim light in the cave to slowly approach and sneak attack Wu Ziyuan, but he didn't expect Wu Ziyuan to be stronger than him. He was higher and spotted him in advance when he was about to approach.
Du Yucheng's injury was not serious in fact, and his embarrassed look just now was partly faked. Although Wu Ziyuan was more seriously injured than him at the time, he did not act recklessly and chose to fight with him. His cultivation was not good enough. Gao was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining. Facing Wu Ziyuan at the sixth level of Qi Refining, even if he attacked first, it was indeed difficult to be sure of victory.
After lowering Wu Ziyuan's alertness, he came up with this method and killed him here.
When he first entered the cave, Du Yucheng pretended to lead the way, borrowing the body of the Liu family elder, making Wu Ziyuan mistakenly think that the elder of his family was distracted, and then Du Yucheng killed him with a sneak attack from behind.
Du Yucheng looked at the corpse on the ground, sneered a few times, confirmed that Wu Ziyuan was no longer breathing, grabbed the storage bag on his body, turned around and disappeared into the dark cave.
After one stick of incense,
A four to five-foot-long black giant python flew back towards the pool from a distance. After circling the pool a few times, the giant python let out several huge roars at a pile of monster bones on the shore. Then he plunged into the water and made a splash.
Fortunately, the black feathered python has been paying attention to the water spirit fruit tree in the cave, and did not keep chasing everyone. It only chased for more than ten miles and then turned back to the pool. Most of the people, including Liu Tianlong, escaped, and only a few people escaped. The unfortunate Liu family monk was swallowed by the black-feathered python.
The Liu family suffered heavy losses in this battle. The patriarch Liu Tianlong was seriously injured. Two elders in the late stage of Qi Refining also died in the monster's cave in order to cover Liu Tianlong's escape. After the Black Feather Python came ashore, he ignored the other monks and remained there. Following closely behind the Liu family, the Liu family lost several more mid-stage Qi refining monks along the way.
The damage of the other three families was not bad, but one monk each was involved in the pool of water and his life or death is unknown.