Chapter 122: Murder on the Road

  "Oh?" Ye Chen smiled faintly, habitually touching the tip of his nose, and sneered: "So you, this powerful Destiny Sea Secret Realm cultivator, are here to hunt me down? Are you from the Chu Wang Dynasty's Guardian Hall?"

  "Huguo Hall? The Chu royal family is not just Huguo Hall, there are many strong people in the Minghai secret realm. The marshal has made great contributions to the royal family by guarding the western frontier. As the saying goes, 'the tall trees in the forest will be blown down by the wind', if I didn't cultivate some strong people myself, I would have been killed by others' assassination long ago. I am just one of the strong people under the marshal's command, and capturing you is as easy as catching a turtle in a jar." The middle-aged man said calmly, with a hint of disdain in his words.

  "Haha, I only asked you one question but you told me so much, born to be a servant indeed, Zheng Bian Guan really has an eye for talent, tsk tsk..." Ye Chen looked at him with a mocking smile.

  "How dare you humiliate me?" The middle-aged man was furious, his black hair seemed to be exploding and flying up without wind, he swung his hand and a storm of blade-like winds came slashing over.

  "Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!!"

  One after another, wind blades in a semicircular shape cut through the air, swirling around and enveloping Ye Chen from all sides.

  "Hmm!"

  Ye Chen coldly smiled, embracing Zhan Xiaoling's slender waist with one arm. With a tap of his toe, his body transformed into a gust of clear wind, and the Divine Wind Step unfolded at triple speed, leaving no shape or trace behind. Only a string of residual shadows could be seen darting back and forth through the forest, and not a single blade of wind managed to strike him as he killed his way forward.

  "It seems that you really have some skills, should be the legendary special physique, today I will kill you and take your blood, two birds with one stone, haha!" The middle-aged man laughed wildly.

  "Storm is coming!"

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!

  A middle-aged man stretched out his hands, and the violent wind spirit power burst out of his body, dispersing into the air and transforming into countless tiny green spirit needles that filled an area of nearly twenty meters, with tens of thousands of green needles falling down to attack indiscriminately.

  Ye Chen only saw countless small green dots flickering in the sky, and the next second, he couldn't even see the trajectory of the incoming needle-like projectiles. No wonder it was called Storm Chaser, its speed was so fast that people could hardly distinguish it.

  "Ding ding ding!!"

  Ye Chen hugged Zhan Xiaoling and rose against the sky, his feet fiercely stomping, meeting countless wind spirit needles that shot up into the air. The Great Collapse Hand shattered all the needles above their heads. At the same time, Ye Chen's single hand continuously drew in mid-air as he performed the Evolution Technique.

  "Mahāmudrā!"

  "Mount Tai crushes the top!"

  Buzz!!

  A ten-zhang large seal suddenly appeared above the middle-aged man's head, and then turned into a mountain in an instant, pressing down. The heavy power came from above, and the middle-aged man was shocked, looking up, his pupils suddenly shrinking to two points.

  "Give me a ride!"

  A middle-aged man let out a loud roar, his muscles all knotted up, and with both hands in a "supporting the heavens" stance, he forcefully held back Ye Chen's majestic mountain of energy. However, the heavy force pressed his body down from mid-air to the ground, his legs sinking deeply into the mud until they were submerged up to his knees.

  "Ridiculous little ant, do you think this can stop me?" The middle-aged man sneered. As his voice rose, a brilliant blue light burst forth from his arm, every pore emitting spiritual energy, and the wind spiritual energy went wild on his arm.

  "Open it for me!!"

  The middle-aged man suddenly let out a low growl and pushed his hands upwards with great force.

  Bang!!

  Ye Chen's transformed aura was blown away by a massive mountain, which exploded with a loud crash.

  At this moment, Ye Chen took out the black meteorite arrow that had been prepared long ago. The blood and energy in his body surged, all concentrated on his right hand, and a powerful force poured into the arrow shaft. The arrow shaft was trembling non-stop, and there was also a flow of golden light on it.

  "Whoosh!"

  A streak of orange-gold light flashed through the void, as fast as lightning, and in an instant it traversed a distance of nearly twenty meters to fly in front of the middle-aged man.

  Middle-aged man just broke open Ye Chen's strong mountain, immediately followed by a golden light shooting straight at him. He didn't even have time to react, and a hint of panic appeared in his eyes. With a single stroke of his hand, the spiritual energy inside his body burst out and formed a cyan spiritual energy shield in front of him.

  Ding!!

  The black meteoric iron arrow shot heavily onto the green barrier, and where it was hit by the arrowhead, it immediately sank deeply. The remaining force of the arrow seemed to be about to break through the Wind Spirit Force Barrier and penetrate the middle-aged man's body. At this time, the mediator stretched out his big hand and grabbed the arrow shaft downwards.

  "Your life is at an end!"

  Along with Ye Chen's cold voice, a black as ink large knife came over like an arrow off the string, its speed was even faster than the previous arrow, the middle-aged man's hand had just grabbed onto the arrow when Ye Chen's knife arrived in front of him.

  Crack!

  The large blade pierced through the already nearly shattered Wind Spirit Force Barrier, and with a "pu" sound, it stabbed into his chest under the middle-aged man's terrified and unwilling gaze.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!!"

  The big knife was infused with Ye Chen's full strength in one blow, and under the tremendous power, the big knife flew out dozens of meters away with the middle-aged man's body, continuously breaking several large trees along the way, finally landing steadily on the trunk of a large tree with a "ding" sound.

  Buzz buzz buzz!

  The large knife's handle shook back and forth, the middle-aged man's breath was cut off, nailed to death on the tree, the deep red blood flowed down the blade of the knife to the handle, and then dripped onto the ground with a pattering sound.

  Ye Chen hugged Zhan Xiaoling and came before the middle-aged man, saying lightly: "You reap what you sow!"

  After searching the middle-aged man, only a storage bag was found. Opening it revealed several stalks of spiritual medicine, all of which were low-grade first-class spiritual medicine. There was also a bottle of healing pellets. Ye Chen's heart slightly rejoiced as he handed the storage bag to Zhan Xiaoling, saying: "Take this, with these spiritual medicines you will quickly enter the Sea of Fate Secret Realm."

  "No." Zhan Xiaoling shook her head and looked at Ye Chen: "As long as you become stronger, you will naturally protect me. Besides, you need the spiritual medicine more than I do right now."

  "Listen, take it, I'll go find more spiritual medicine if I need to." Ye Chen shook his head and forcibly stuffed the storage bag into Zhan Xiaoling's hand.

  "No way, spiritual medicine isn't that easy to find, and a first-class spiritual medicine like this is even more rare. Alright then." Zhan Xiaoling opened her storage bag and took out two stalks of low-grade first-class spiritual medicine, then handed the storage bag over to Ye Chen, "Take it, these two stalks are enough for me, with just these two spiritual medicines I might be able to break through to the Mysterious Realm of Fate. The others aren't needed, besides if I enter a blessed land to cultivate the Dao won't I have plenty of spiritual medicine?"

  "Alright." Ye Chen put away the storage bag, picked up the black iron arrow rod on the ground, pulled out the big knife stuck in the tree trunk, and the middle-aged man's corpse fell down with a thud. After wiping clean the bloodstains on the big knife from the middle-aged man's clothes, Ye Chen put it back into the storage bag.

  "Let's go, the road to Lingquan Fudi is far away, and this forest has left endless legends behind. It's likely that it has existed for at least tens of millions of years. Who knows what dangers are hidden in this forest? The sooner we leave this forest, the safer we will be." Ye Chen looked at the corpses on the ground and smiled: "I'm sure there won't be anyone chasing us anymore, so let's hurry up with peace of mind."

  "Uh-huh." Zhan Xiaoling nodded, looking at Ye Chen's eyes filled with warmth and affection, and said in a soft voice: "Ye Chen, you're carrying me and walking too fast, I can't keep up."

  Ye Chen looked at her, a hint of a smile rising from the corner of his mouth. In the gentle mountain breeze, Zhan Xiaoling's hair fluttered lightly, occasionally a few strands stuck to her lips. Her eyes had ripples like autumn water, as if a gentle hand had stroked Ye Chen's heart.

  It seemed that Zhan Xiaoling understood the emotions in Ye Chen's eyes, and she gently placed her head on his chest, wrapping her arms around his waist. Ye Chen burst out laughing and hugged her slender waist, running wildly through the ancient forest. The wind whirled around them, and all the thorns and weeds they passed by bent to both sides, automatically clearing a path for them.

  In the Hou Tu Forest, there were countless ferocious beasts. Along the way, Ye Chen sensed dozens of fierce auras, each one extremely powerful, almost all at the level of 9th rank wild beasts. Although for Ye Chen, 9th rank wild beasts didn't count as anything, he also didn't want to waste time, so he simply avoided those areas where the beasts roamed from afar.

  This forest has been ancient and long-standing, with a very rich spiritual energy, several times more dense than the spiritual energy in the depths of the Ye family's back mountain, and this is also the peripheral area of the Hou Tu Forest. If you enter deeper, what kind of density will the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy reach?

  Ye Chen was amazed in his heart, even if it wasn't near the Lingquan blessed land, just being in this Hou Tu forest to cultivate could allow him to condense the apertures within his body at several times the original speed, increasing the blood and energy of his flesh and its strength.

  However, Ye Chen couldn't stay in the Hou Tu Forest for long. Firstly, he needed to find an opportunity to break the seal on his dantian, and secondly, with Zhan Xiaoling by his side, he didn't know what dangers they might face if they stayed there for too long. He couldn't let her follow him into danger, so it was best to head to the outskirts of Lingquan Fudi as soon as possible and find a way to contact Ye Yan to ask for her help in getting Zhan Xiaoling into Lingquan Fudi to cultivate safely.

  Half a month later, Ye Chen and Zhan Xiaoling had already ventured deep into the Hou Tu Forest for over 100,000 miles. The ancient trees here were even more lush and towering, stretching straight up to the clouds, their branches and leaves spreading out to cover an area of several miles, like giant umbrellas covering the sky. Ye Chen and Zhan Xiaoling had never seen such magnificent giant trees before, they were left staring in awe, their mouths agape. Trees like these must have taken at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to grow!

  Ye Chen looked up at the giant trees, still in extreme astonishment, when suddenly several rays of light flew over from afar, crossing the high sky above their heads in an instant.

  That's a monk!

  Ye Chen was shocked and exchanged a glance with Zhan Xiaoling, the few people who had just flown over from the sky above their heads each had a divine light wrapped around their bodies, as if they were gods descending to the mortal world. Although they did not intentionally release their aura, Ye Chen could still feel their strength, which was far greater than Han Qingxue and Huo Shenzu, and even stronger than the elders of the Four Great Blessings.

  "What kind of people are these, and why have they come to the Hou Tu Forest?" Ye Chen muttered to himself, he faintly felt that something unusual must have happened in the Hou Tu Forest, or else how could it attract such powerful individuals.

  Zhan Xiaoling shook her head, and suddenly she pulled at Ye Chen's arm, exclaiming in a startled voice: "Quickly look, another cultivator has arrived."

  Today there might only be three updates, if possible I'll try to update four times, thank you for accompanying the Holy Emperor's friends, thank you for Cai Hongfu brother's footprints, haha! ~