As the Universe Turns - Chapter 975
Chapter 975 Break Out of the Encirclement
The two auras were getting closer and closer. In an instant, they had already arrived at the valley. Shui Hanyan’s brows furrowed deeply, but her eyes were extremely focused. She looked in the direction of the aura and coldly said, “Who are you?”
Just as she finished speaking, two figures had already appeared on the cliff outside the courtyard. However, when they saw that both of them were wearing black robes and battle robes on their heads, they were unable to see their appearances clearly.
“Hide your head and show your tail. Thinking about it … you’re not a good person.” Xiao Chen looked at the two black figures on the cliff and said indifferently.
As for the two of them, their gazes landed on him. The black-robed man on the left shouted, “Oh? I wonder who your Excellency is.”
Xiao Chen looked at the two figures on the cliff and said indifferently, “It doesn’t matter who they are. It seems impossible for the two of you to take Senior Medical Saint away today.”
“I think you’re courting death!”
The two silhouettes suddenly arrived. They raised their palms and a powerful force struck them. However, before Xiao Chen could attack the courtyard, several streaks of profound light suddenly shot up from outside the courtyard. In an instant, they formed a screen of light. With a “rumble”, the earth shook and the mountains shook, forcefully blocking their palms.
“Oh?”
The eyes of the two black-robed men narrowed slightly. Looking at the light screen surrounding the entire courtyard, the two of them could naturally feel that there was an extremely thick amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy hidden beneath the light screen. It was an extremely powerful defensive array.
“I borrowed the spirit energy essence of Zhou Mountain to form a Spirit Returning Array here. It is indeed worthy of being called the Healing Saint Shui Hanyan. No wonder only mortals were able to find the Water Cloud Valley these past few years. So it turns out that there is such a secret technique.”
The two of them smiled gloomily. The black-robed man on the left looked at Xiao Chen and said, “If it weren’t for this brat accidentally coming in and breaking the Spirit Returning Array Eye of the Medical Saint Cloth outside, I’m afraid it would have been a difficult task for us to find this place.”
Xiao Chen looked in the direction of the valley entrance. It turned out that what she had broken yesterday was not a restriction formation, but a Spirit Returning Array Eye hidden inside the restriction. As such, it seemed that she had instead led these people into the valley. However, Shui Hanyan knew that she had broken the spirit energy of the formation here, but she had never said anything since yesterday.
She was too rash. If Wei Yang came here, her Spiritual Energy would definitely carefully observe the valley. After finding out where the Spirit Returning Array Eye was, she would carefully walk in without destroying it.
“But then again, even without him breaking through the array hole outside, Shui Hanyan, do you really think you can live a lifetime here?”
Suddenly, the eyes of the two black-robed men became sharp. After one person finished speaking, a lot of people came in from outside the valley. Five of them were the five people that Xiao Chen had knocked back at the entrance of the valley.
“Go, find all the positions in the valley!”
The black-robed man on the left shouted coldly. The figures behind him immediately turned into streaks of sharp light and headed towards the valley. Not long after, rumbling sounds could be heard. Immediately after, the entire valley trembled violently. Then, the array light screen outside the courtyard would weaken by a level.
Every time a formation was broken, the defenses of the Spirit Returning Array would weaken by a point. In the end, the entire formation would collapse without any defenses.
The aura outside was getting stronger and stronger. Clearly, there were more and more people on the other side. As long as this place was exposed, the enemies would continuously arrive. The later they left, the harder it would be to break out of the encirclement.
Xiao Chen had been hunted down by many people in the past. He understood this principle very well. The valley was surrounded by mountains. Once the enemy sealed off all the paths, it would be even harder for him to get out. Even if his cultivation had stabilized, it was not just a matter of saying that he would have to deal with several Quasi-Saints at the same time.
“Are you still unwilling to follow me?”
Xiao Chen condensed into Genuine energy’s palm and protected Shui Hanyan. Although Shui Hanyan was ranked among the Ten Saints, she had studied medicine all her life. The Dao she cultivated was also to save people, not to kill them. Therefore, if she fought with people, she would not be as good as Xiao Chen, nor would she be able to defeat those people outside.
“Rumble!”
The shockwaves became more and more intense, and the light screen that enveloped the courtyard became weaker and weaker, while the auras of the people outside became stronger and stronger. In a short moment, it was unknown how many more people had come from outside the valley.
At this moment, Shui Hanyan’s brows furrowed. Looking at the people outside, she seemed to be hesitating. Seeing that the defensive array was getting weaker and weaker, Xiao Chen did not know if there were any other Quasi-Saints outside. At this moment, he could no longer think about it.
He flicked his sleeves and unleashed the universe in his sleeves, putting all the herbs and things in the courtyard into his sleeves. Then, he pulled Shui Hanyan and jumped out of the courtyard.
Shui Hanyan was stunned. Before she could react, a sharp sword qi slashed towards the two of them from afar. “Be careful!” Shui Hanyan instantly reacted. She formed a seal with both of her hands and laid a layer of True Qi shield. With a “clang” sound, she blocked the sword qi.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”
Countless figures descended from all directions, blocking their path. The two black-robed Pseudo-Saints also arrived in an instant, blocking them one in front and one behind.
“Do you really think you can leave here?”
The black-robed man in front of them glanced at the two of them. As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his palm and five fingers instantly formed five black void cracks that swallowed the two of them.
“Avoid.”
Xiao Chen pulled Shui Hanyan. Ling Xian Step instantly dodged the devouring of the void crack, but then another black-robed man slashed at him. The sword energy was extremely ferocious. Xiao Chen could not forcefully receive it, so he could only open the Ling Xian Step again and dodge it to the side.
“This brat, what a strange movement technique …”
After several consecutive attacks were dodged, the two black-robed men stood together. Their gazes were fixed on Xiao Chen. They couldn’t recognize him for a moment, nor could they see through his cultivation.
“Someone is coming from the northwest.”
Shui Hanyan stared at the northwest horizon and suddenly spoke. Just as she finished speaking, a dozen figures flew over from the clouds. Although the auras of the two people in the lead had not reached the Quasi-Sage realm, they were nearing.
“If you had left with me earlier, it wouldn’t have been so dangerous.”
Xiao Chen was vigilant against the surrounding people. At this moment, his expression became very serious. Facing the two Quasi-Saints, two people whose cultivation was close to that of Quasi-Saints, and many cultivators outside, unless there were twenty-four people in Night Shade, he would not be able to easily break out of the encirclement.
“Interesting, capture these two!”
At this moment, the eyes of the two black-robed men turned cold. The surrounding people immediately attacked Xiao Chen and Shui Hanyan. The sword images were dazzling and overlapping in the sky. A sword slashed towards the two of them, causing the sky to surge with wind and clouds, and the valley to tremble endlessly.
Moments later, the two of them were still unable to break out of the encirclement. On the contrary, there were more and more people outside. It was unknown how many people had come from the other side this time, and it was unknown if there were any other experts who had yet to show up.
At this moment, Xiao Chen frowned deeply. Ordinary Quasi-Saints were still able to deal with them. However, if another Quasi-Saint above the Fifth Order came, he and Shui Hanyan would probably fall into a bitter battle today. Unless he used the Xuan Qing Forbidden Technique, the Three Elements Heart Burning Technique, he would not be able to deal with so many people.
Looking at the dense crowd of people gathering around her, Shui Hanyan’s face remained calm. After all, she was a Ten Saints. How could she be frightened by these people in front of her? She formed seals with both of her hands and condensed a layer of water blue light, covering her and Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen felt refreshed after being covered by the water blue light screen. Genuine energy, who had just been consumed, quickly recovered at this moment.
“Go!”
With the two black-robed men leading the charge, more than a hundred figures attacked the two. The black-robed man stretched out his hand and moved a mountain from the left. “Rumble!” The entire mountain was like a plaything. Under the control of his palm, it heavily pressed down on Xiao Chen and Shui Hanyan.
This kind of mountain-shifting spell was naturally good. It was already covered with restrictions. Once it was suppressed by the mountain, there would be no chance for it to turn over again.
“Avoid!”
Unable to resist the pressure of this restrictive mountain, Xiao Chen had no choice but to use Ling Xian Step again and flee ten miles away with Shui Hanyan at a critical moment.
With a “rumble”, the restriction mountain crushed down, immediately destroying the entire valley. The sky was filled with smoke and dust. The previous attack was said to be both dangerous and dangerous.
Soon, the two Pseudo-Saints attacked again. The rest of them also used their spells. The sky was filled with lightning, flames, and ice arrows that shot straight at the two of them.
Fortunately, Shui Hanyan’s recovery technique was available. Otherwise, if he continued to consume it like this, Xiao Chen would surely be exhausted. However, even so, he had to break out of the encirclement as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the opponent came with a stronger person, he would never be able to leave.
However, with these two Pseudo-Saints present, it would not be easy to break out of the encirclement in a short period of time unless they were able to kill these two Pseudo-Saints.
However, how could a person whose cultivation had already reached the Quasi-Sage realm be so easy to kill?
With Xiao Chen’s current cultivation, it wasn’t difficult to deal with one or two Quasi-Saints, but being able to deal with them was completely different from killing them.
Even today, the Quasi-Sage he had killed was only a Tai Yinsi, but at that time, he had encountered Tai Yinsi’s injuries. Otherwise, how could it be so easy to kill him?
Once a Quasi-Sage was cultivated, he would be able to peek at the mysteries of the Saint realm for the first time. At this time, neither his soul nor his physical body was comparable to a Quasi-Sage.
At the end of the day, Xiao Chen’s cultivation was only profound. In the end, he hadn’t been able to comprehend the Sage realm. If he could comprehend even the slightest bit of the Sage realm, it would be much easier to kill the two of them in front of him.
Evidently, the two black-robed Pseudo-Saints were also able to see through his cultivation realm. In fact, they were not as high as the two of them. However, for some reason, they were comparable to them and were even stronger than them. Therefore, the two of them were confident and did not worry that the other party would have the ability to kill them.