Chapter 139 Escape and Return

Chen Luo, who had temporarily suppressed his injuries, let out a long sigh.

He stood up and looked towards the spiritual medicine garden that the old ghost and the others had gone to. The noise over there had become much quieter at this moment, and he didn't know if it had died down.

Chen Luo had no intention of going in to investigate. He took out a pill, restored his spiritual power, and then turned and walked down the mountain. With the experience just now, he was sure to find the way down the mountain this time.

The foundation-building formation master's brain started working.

'Stop.'

When Chen Luo walked to the corner and was about to move forward, his foundation-building brain suddenly sensed something was wrong.

He stopped and found a golden mark under a small stone. This mark was very similar to the immortal text he had learned before, but it was also a little different. At this moment, this mark was emitting a weak power, affecting the environment of the path. The previous time he was led to the thatched cottage was the result of this mark.

With Chen Luo's current knowledge, there is no way to break this mark, but he can use this mark to determine the direction.

'Take thirty steps to the left and go straight.'

After searching for a while, the Foundation Establishment Monk's brain successfully found the correct direction.

Chen Luo looked over and found that this direction was full of broken rocks and poisonous miasma, and there was no place to stay at all.

He walked over and tried it out, then finally gritted his teeth and walked up despite the broken rocks and poisonous miasma.

When he stepped into this area, a familiar feeling came over him again. It was the effect of the formation. When all the feelings disappeared, Chen Luo found himself back in Guoshan County.

The place where my feet are standing is the end of the street.

The dilapidated restaurant was still shaking, just like what I saw when I went up the mountain, with the signboard shaking and the wooden door opening and closing.

"Wang Tianji, you bastard, I would rather die than do anything else. Ah!!"

Before Chen Luo left, an angry roar suddenly came from the mountain behind him. Then he saw Lu Zhaotian rushing out of the formation with a compass in his hand, followed by two people.

It was the mummy old ghost and Wang Tianji.

The whereabouts of the injured Sun Ji is unknown.

Wang Tianji, who escaped, had a gloomy face, was much thinner, and had blood on his hands. Considering the screams he heard before, he could roughly guess what happened.

After the two men rushed out of the formation, they didn't even look at Chen Luo and ran straight towards the entrance of Guoshan County.

"Run, there's a big guy behind us!!"

Only the old mummy ghost had a flash of surprise in his eyes after seeing Chen Luo, but it soon turned into anxiety. After giving a reminder, he ran with the two people in front.

Chen Luo was not stupid. Seeing this scene, he immediately flew up and ran forward with the three of them. Lu Zhaotian had the formation compass in his hand. Following him, they could definitely leave Guoshan County successfully.

roar!!!

Just a moment after the three people left, there was a wave from the formation behind them, and a giant monster covered in black mist crawled out from it. The monster was nearly eight meters long, and its body was made of rocks. It was holding a twisted and deformed corpse in its hand.

It was the missing Sun Ji.

With the appearance of this giant monster, the ground of the entire Guoshan County began to shake. The nearest restaurant collapsed directly. The broken wood chips were wrapped in the black air and stuck to the monster's body, making his already exaggerated body grow another two meters.

The few people who were running subconsciously looked back and felt even more frightened.

The aura of this monster completely surpassed that of Qi Refining Perfection. Under his influence, half of the sky in Guoshan County turned black. In the black air, the mountain spirit woman and the young scholar were looming, and there were also a lot of ghosts and monsters mixed in, like a group of demons dancing wildly.

"How did you get out?"

The old mummy ghost glanced at Chen Luo who was following behind him and asked a question.

He remembered that Chen Luo did not have the formation compass in his hand. If the three of them had not been lucky enough to follow Lu Zhaotian, they would have confessed long ago. After the formation was fully activated, it was like a maze, and they had to rely on the formation disk to have a chance to escape.

What Lu Zhaotian had spent ten years preparing was of great use.

"It's a guess."

Chen Luo was too lazy to explain and replied.

"Where is your refined corpse? And why has Fellow Daoist Wang lost so much weight?"

He noticed the changes in the three people. They were in a much more miserable state than when they separated from the Second Medicine Garden.

The old ghost's treasured corpse was gone, and Wang Tianji lost a lot of weight, from a round fat man to a skinny man. The leader Lu Zhaotian was not much better. Don't look at his current momentum, that is the result of calling the life-threatening secret method. When the power of the secret method is exhausted, he may not even be able to fly.

"There's a monster sleeping in the third medicine garden. It's the guy behind us. We were all ambushed by that monster."

The old ghost looked unhappy. He had suffered a great loss this time. The corpses in the corpse bag were almost destroyed, and even his own corpse puppet was eaten by the big guy behind him.

As he said this, he suddenly looked at Chen Luo.

There were five people in the group, but only Chen Luo did not go in. Recalling the matter of "evil spirits" that Chen Luo had asked him about before entering the third medicine garden, the old mummy ghost felt something was wrong.

"Isn't this thing behind you the evil spirit?"

But it’s not a good idea to ask too much at this moment. After all, it was the four of them who ran away first, and it’s their own bad luck if they got tricked.

"arrive!"

Lu Zhaotian, who was holding the formation plate, said something, and then he rushed towards the stone wall in front of him. His whole body seemed to be transformed by light, and after a moment of distortion, he disappeared into thin air.

"Stay here!!!"

Sun Ji, who was held in the giant monster's hand, stared at the four people with a bloody face, and his resentful eyes seemed to have become real. It was a pity that Chen Luo and the other four were not weak, so they ignored this look.

The three of them followed Lu Zhaotian and crashed into the wall.

The giant's palm finally came down, and the terrifying black energy hit the wall fiercely, but unfortunately no matter how angry it was, its power could not penetrate it. Everything was blocked by the formation.

A familiar feeling of distortion came, and when I came to my senses, the four people had appeared outside Guoshan County.

The bright sunshine shone down from above, making everyone feel dazed.

I couldn’t tell the sun from the moon in Guoshan County before, but when I came out, I realized it was already bright outside.

"Hahaha!! I finally escaped."

Wang Tianji, with a gloomy face, collapsed to the ground and laughed loudly. On the other side, the old ghost with a mummy also sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

Lu Zhaotian was even more miserable. In order to escape from Guoshan County, he used a secret method. After rushing out, he crashed into the tree in front of him and fainted.

"Concentration grass, yes!! My concentration grass."

After Wang Tianji finished laughing, he quickly reached out to his chest and pulled out a blood-stained spiritual herb.

Even he himself did not notice that when he touched the Concentrating Spirit Grass, his pupils unconsciously turned dark red. The red light flashed and no one noticed it, not only him, but also the old mummy ghost and Lu Zhaotian, except that they were different in strength. The red light on the old mummy ghost was the lightest.

"The evil spirit is possessed, and he will not live long. The foundation building of the soul can suppress it. If a Jindan cultivator takes action, it can be guaranteed to be safe."

In Chen Luo's mind, the mummy's brain responded with a thought.

"Possessed by evil spirits?"

Chen Luo's heart trembled, and he quietly distanced himself from the three people.

"Didn't you find the Concentrating Spirit Grass?"

The old mummy ghost did not notice these details. He was now immersed in the joy of escaping death and harvesting the Mind-Concentrating Grass.

"No."

Chen Luo shook his head.

He sensed the Concentrating Grass in his storage bag and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he had taken it out.

"I just happened to grab an extra copy, you can take it."

As the old mummy ghost spoke, he took out a portion of the Concentration Grass from his storage bag and handed it to Chen Luo. This behavior of his surprised Chen Luo. It seemed that the old mummy ghost really regarded him as a friend.

After taking a look at the Concentrating Spirit Grass in the old mummy ghost's hand, Chen Luo shook his head and refused.

"Forget it, I have another way."

Seeing this, the old mummy ghost said nothing and put the mind-concentrating grass away again.

The four of them rested for a while. They were finally in a much better condition. Lu Zhaotian also woke up from his coma. His face was frighteningly pale, like a consumptive who had indulged in excessive sexual activities. Wang Tianji was not much better. In order to escape, he separated his flesh and blood, dodged a fatal blow, and also tricked Sun Ji.

Although he survived, he still sustained injuries.

"Fellow Daoist Chen is an alchemist?"

Lu Zhaotian looked at Chen Luo and asked. The old mummy ghost's attitude was too strange before, which made him see some clues.

"yes."

"Can you refine the foundation-building pill?"

"Can."

Chen Luo nodded. He understood what Lu Zhaotian meant by asking this question, and he had no hidden thoughts. These three people had practiced for a longer time than him, and their experience was also rich. They were potential big customers.

This trip to Guoshan County was very exhausting, and it will take a long time to recover after returning.

The last magical power of the cultivator who established his foundation in the thatched hut still remains in his body. Although the injury has been suppressed, resources are still needed to recover.

"Then after I recover, I will come to find you to make the elixir." Lu Zhaotian stood up and bowed solemnly to Chen Luo.

"The price is twice the market price."

"No problem."

"I'll come too." Wang Tianji also stood up and exchanged a few pleasantries with Chen Luo. The two exchanged a few more words, and after exchanging contact information with Chen Luo, they flew away, leaving Chen Luo and the old ghost standing there.

A cold wind blew by, lifting the hems of their clothes.

"Everyone has left, can you tell me now? Did you find anything before? There are evil spirits."

The old mummy ghost suddenly spoke.

"Go back first. At least you have to be careful." Chen Luo glanced at the mummy old ghost and didn't explain anything.

He didn't know what the state of being possessed by evil spirits was like. After the mummy's brain reminded him, it stopped responding. Chen Luo didn't know the details, so he could only say this.

Hearing Chen Luo's reminder, the old mummy ghost felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

As he had guessed, the things inside had left a backup plan for them.

But now it has come to this, there is nothing he can do.

We can only take one step at a time and see what happens.

The two of them flew up, using their spiritual power to fly towards the direction of Mushan City from which they came.

Half a month later.

Wood Mountain Castle.

Chen Luo woke up from his retreat and sensed his physical condition.

The magical power left in his body by the foundation-building monk in the thatched house was completely expelled, and his physical condition was restored to its peak. The only trouble was the curse. The finger that the foundation-building monk pointed at the straw man's brow was the real trouble.

During this period of time, he had been suppressing it with the Soul Technique. But even so, he could not completely eradicate the remaining power of the curse. After so long, he had only worn away a little bit of it, and it was still a long way from full recovery.

The most troublesome thing is that he asked Zhu Jie about the nourishing pill that the mummy brain mentioned after he came back. It turned out that the "nourishing pill" was actually a second-level pill, and only alchemists in the foundation-building stage were qualified to refine it. The price of a single pill outside was even more frighteningly expensive, and many times you might not be able to buy it even if you had spirit stones.

For Chen Luo, this plan suddenly lost its meaning.

If he had the strength to build a foundation, would he still need to go to Guoshan County to take risks? So after learning about the level of the Yang Shen Pill, he immediately gave up this plan.

"Boil the black dragon's beard and use the soul technique to speed up recovery."

Fortunately, the mummy's brain provided a second solution.

In comparison, the black dragon beard is much cheaper and can be purchased even at the Qi Refining stage. Chen Luo asked Zhu Jie to buy a lot for him during this period.

"I can only endure it slowly."

Chen Luo sighed, walked to the side, threw the black dragon whiskers into the stove, and boiled it over low heat. After a while, the water inside slowly turned into ink black, and a strong demonic aura emanated from it. Chen Luo picked up the juice and drank it in one gulp.

He sat cross-legged, and the spiritual energy in his body began to flow, and his spiritual energy moved to his forehead.

With the power of the potion, he began to slowly erase the evil curse lingering on his forehead. An hour later, the power of the potion was exhausted, and Chen Luo slowly recovered from his practice state. He sensed the slightly lighter evil curse on his forehead and continued to boil the potion.

"The foundation-building pill is almost ready to be refined."

Three days later, Chen Luo did not erase the evil curse. The magical power that the foundation-building cultivator had injected into his body was not so easy to resolve. It was just right that he could take advantage of the good condition in the past two days to refine the foundation-building pill first.

Take out the Ningshen Grass and other medicinal herbs and place them on the table.

(End of this chapter)