Liu Lang pressed on Chen Xiao's shoulders, and with the strength he had just accumulated, he turned over and pushed him hard. "Go!"

At the same time, he took out a palm-sized mechanical beast from his storage bag and threw it to the open space in front of him. It immediately grew in the wind and suddenly became as big as a house.

Before Liu Lang lost his cultivation, he was just better off than ordinary practitioners. He invested all the savings he had accumulated during his training in the Purple Gardenia Forest, and lived a very frugal life, unable to even afford a storage bag.

The one I use now was purchased after I received the compensation, in order to conceal my wealth.

The mechanical beast was specially made by a mechanical master for his personal use. Because it was specially designed to be controlled by mental power and limited by the material, it can only be used once. Liu Lang was reluctant to use it unless it was an emergency.

In order to cover Chen Xiao's retreat, he directly activated this last resort.

Liu Lang outputted his mental power to the mechanical beast, tried hard to gain a firm foothold, and controlled the mechanical beast to jump towards the evil cultivator in the air.

"Stay here!" he shouted angrily.

The mechanical beast could not fly, but it had a strong jumping ability. In order to catch up with the two people, Cheng Gu did not fly very high. This caused the mechanical beast to jump up suddenly and pounce straight at him.

After all, it was a mechanical beast made by a master of machinery, and its speed was extremely fast. Cheng Gu couldn't dodge in time, so he had to palm forward, trying to use his true energy to shock the mechanical beast.

All this happened in a flash. When Chen Xiao reacted, he had already run dozens of meters away. When he realized something was wrong, Liu Lang's mechanical beast had already exchanged several moves with Cheng Gu.

There was no way Chen Xiao would just leave Liu Lang alone, so he immediately put Xiao Ba on the ground and told him, "Be good and stay here. Wait for me and don't go anywhere!"

He no longer cared whether Xiao Ba could understand him or not. He turned around and ran towards Liu Lang quickly, holding a handful of offensive paper talismans in his hand.

Now the only option is to fight!

The master-level mechanical beast was barely evenly matched against Cheng Gu, who was in the early Jindan stage. Of course, the premise was that Liu Lang had enough mental power to support him to defeat Cheng Gu.

Liu Lang's mental strength was only average. He knew that he couldn't defeat the evil cultivator. All he had to do was delay time and let Chen Xiao escape.

Chen Xiao rushed back to the battlefield and attacked with the lightning talisman and the divine fire talisman.

Liu Lang's heart sank, and he couldn't help but yell at Chen Xiao in a low voice: "Why did you come back? You might as well escape alive and avenge me later!"

Chen Xiao said without even turning his head: "Let's live together, let's die together!"

Even if he succeeded in avenging Liu Lang in the future, what would be the point since he was no longer alive. Besides, it was not his character to let him leave his companions behind and live alone!

Liu Lang was helpless, but he was deeply touched that Chen Xiao turned back and fought alongside him.

His eyes became more determined, and he exerted all his mental strength without regard for his life. He was determined to seriously injure this evil cultivator even if it meant dying together with him.

Chen Xiao had practiced fighting with his companions, and he took the initiative to cooperate with Liu Lang in using paper talismans. Under the attack of the two, Cheng Gu was temporarily at a disadvantage. In the long run, Chen Xiao and Liu Lang were not without hope of winning.

Unfortunately, the three evil cultivators in the foundation-building stage rushed over and attacked the two without saying a word.

Liu Lang had to concentrate on controlling the mechanical beast, as dealing with Cheng Gu was already his limit, and he couldn't split his attention. Chen Xiao attacked with one hand the paper talisman and with the other hand the spiritual energy bullet, fighting the three evil cultivators alone.

Fortunately, due to the quarrel just now, the three evil cultivators were not as skilled as before. The two junior brothers were angry and sometimes even deliberately used magic to shoot at Fan Shiming, calling it a mistake and sending Fan Shiming away with a very insincere apology.

Fan Shiming was so angry that if he couldn't beat any of them, he would have wanted to tear them apart first.

The internal conflict among the three people gave the two a chance to catch their breath.

The longer the battle lasts, the more unfavorable the situation becomes for Chen Xiao and Liu Lang.

Liu Lang's mental energy was consumed too much and his physical strength was already running low. Once his mental energy was exhausted, he didn't even have the strength to escape.

No matter how abundant the paper talismans and spiritual energy bombs in Chen Xiao's hands were, they were almost exhausted when facing the combined forces of three people.

Finally, Cheng Gu's magic tore the body of the mechanical beast apart, and a palm of true energy flew out, knocking Liu Lang high into the air and causing him to fall heavily to the ground.

"Puff——" Liu Lang spat out a mouthful of blood far away, and a large part of his chest collapsed. He lay there breathing in less than breathing out.

"Liu Lang!" Chen Xiao was distracted and his attack had a flaw. His second junior brother seized the opportunity and rushed over to subdue him.

"Hey, you have quite a deep brotherly love." The second junior brother mocked, and the third junior brother and Fan Shiming also stopped and slowly approached.

Cheng Gu came down with a cold face and kicked Liu Lang. Liu Lang made an ominous sound like a last gasp, tilted his head and was silent.

"Stop it! -" Chen Xiao was filled with grief and anger. He stared at Cheng Gu with hatred in his eyes.

Cheng Gu ignored Chen Xiao and just raised his chin to his third apprentice brother, "This is yours."

The third junior brother responded happily and ran over to drag Liu Lang away.

Just at this moment, Fan Shiming recognized Chen Xiao.

Fan Shiming had a deep memory of Chen Xiao, the culprit who prevented him from going to Chongxuan Sect. If Chen Xiao's brow bones had not grown and his height and body shape had not changed a lot over the years, he would have recognized him immediately.

When enemies meet, their eyes turn red with envy. He rushed over and grabbed Chen Xiao by the collar, "Okay, Mr. Chen, you're finally in my hands!"

The second junior brother raised his eyebrows, pushed him on the chest with an unfriendly look, and made Fan Shiming stagger.

“What are you doing!”

Fan Shiming had an angry look on his face and said to him in a very aggressive tone, "Leave him to me!"

The second apprentice brother was immediately furious, "Come again? Do you have any shame? Do you still have any shame?"

"Dare to push me?" Fan Shiming's anger was originally directed at Chen Xiao, but now it was transferred to his second junior brother, "I order you to give me this person!"

The second martial brother laughed in anger. He stretched out his finger and pointed fiercely at Fan Shiming's chest, "You still order me around? Who do you think you are? This is not a small place like Gengsheng. It's not your turn to bully others!"

Fan Shiming felt very hurt, he had never been treated like this before. He was furious and was about to attack his second junior brother, but Cheng Gu intervened.

"What's going on?" Cheng Gu looked at the two people unhappily.

The second apprentice brother immediately complained and told Cheng Gu what Fan Shiming said. Cheng Gu had no expression throughout the whole process. He actually heard it just now, and asking again was just a gesture to emphasize his authority.

He glanced at Fan Shiming coldly, and the warning look made Fan Shiming calm down a bit. Fan Shiming still didn't want to make enemies with Cheng Gu, he couldn't offend everyone.

Fan Shiming explained: "This man and I are from the same village. It was him who caused my Dantian to be broken! I want him for revenge!"

If his Dantian had not been broken, his father would not have used the only talisman for help to invite the ancestor of the Fan family back to save his immortal path.

It was at this time that Fan Shiming found out that this old ancestor, who was kept secret at home and not allowed to be discussed, was not a Taoist practitioner as rumored to be the case, but an evil practitioner.

The father begged the ancestor to save his broken dantian. The price of the Taoist method was too high, and the Fan family could not afford it, so they could only let Fan Shiming turn to evil cultivation and ask the ancestor to help with evil methods.

Fan Shiming no longer cared about Taoist or evil cultivation at this moment. He was almost driven crazy by the damage to his dantian. As long as he could continue to practice, he didn't care even if it was an evil method.

According to the ranking, the ancestor is the sixth generation ancestor - Liezu. With such a high generation, Fan Shiming was originally very close and grateful to him. However, he did not expect that Liezu was not as nice to him as he imagined, but a little cold.

If Fan Shiming wanted to continue on the path of cultivation, he had to maintain this relationship. He could be rude to the second and third disciples who joined later, but he had to be respectful to the eldest disciple who was the most valued and talented by the ancestor.

Cheng Gu said coldly: "In this case, let's exchange the body of the man just now for this one."

Since Fan Shiming was willing to give in, Cheng Gu planned to keep things quiet. However, he couldn't let his second apprentice brother suffer.

Fan Shiming didn't realize that he had already touched Cheng Gu's bottom line of tolerance. His subconscious arrogance made him shout subconsciously: "No!"

Cheng Gu's face darkened, and the second junior brother immediately exploded.

"Fan Shiming, don't go too far! Do you really think no one dares to do anything to you?"

Fan Shiming turned around and taunted his second apprentice brother: "You only have a mouth left that can bark twice, what else can you do? If you have the guts, come on!"

This was also the illusion that Cheng Gu gave him. He always felt that the other party was protecting him.

Unexpectedly, this time Second Junior Brother couldn't bear it anymore and really rushed over to attack, but Cheng Gu crossed his arms and watched coldly, with no intention of stopping him at all.

The third junior brother was also very angry, but when he saw that the eldest junior brother didn't care, he was delighted and rushed over to beat Fan Shiming.

Chen Xiao took advantage of the chaos to leave and crawled to Liu Lang's side. He reached out and felt Liu Lang's pulse, which was like a candle in the wind, sometimes beating and sometimes not.

He arrived just in time. If he had arrived any later, Liu Lang would have really had no chance of survival.

He quickly took out the medicine box that Shi Yunting had given him from the storage box, took out a life-saving elixir, and stuffed it into Liu Lang's mouth.

Cheng Gu watched coldly, he knew that his two junior brothers were sensible, at most they would vent their anger and would not kill Fan Shiming. Therefore, he secretly focused part of his attention on Chen Xiao, and when he saw him take out the elixir to save his life, he couldn't help but be greedy.

He flashed to Chen Xiao's side and grabbed the wrist where the storage box was worn.

Chen Xiao reacted quickly and rolled to avoid it. Without time to take out the paper talisman, he drew the Zhengge from his waist and attacked Cheng Gu with his sword.

Compared with his paper talismans and spiritual energy bombs, his sword skills can only be used for close-range emergencies. He is not good enough to fight against evil cultivators whose cultivation is much higher than his.

Cheng Gu had the idea of ​​taking over Chen Xiao's storage box, but he hated that he became the fuse for the fight between Fan Shiming and his two junior brothers. His true energy flowed to his palms, and a force with a strong fishy smell swung down towards Chen Xiao's crown!

Just when Chen Xiao thought he was going to die this time, a figure wearing a light yellow monk's robe and a bright red cassock fell from the sky.

"Bang——" There was a loud noise and a flash of golden light. Cheng Gu felt a tightness in his chest due to the rebound of his true energy.

Chen Xiao was still in shock as he looked at the back of a man who looked like a mage with short messy hair in front of him. He shouted in a loud voice, "I've heard that there are evil cultivators doing evil and harming Taoists in Taizhen. I've been looking for you for a long time! Today, I, Jinghui, am here. Don't even think about killing anyone again. You evil cultivator, come and die now!!"