【Chapter 164】Father and Second Brother
【Chapter 164】Father and Second Brother
This cave ruins is like a maze. Every time Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan go through two formations, they will face a choice of a fork in the road.
Because of the guidance of the drop of blood, the two did not have to choose which way to go.
Although the formation here could not stop the two of them, Ye Chenyuan could only use his peak Jindan strength to forcibly break the formation, which would inevitably waste some time.
Therefore, when the two walked out of the eighth flame array, the drop of blood that guided the way turned into stars and disappeared.
Ye Chenyuan, who was unaware of the situation, asked in confusion: "What happened? Why did the drop of blood disappear?"
Although his voice was calm when he asked the question, he was actually very nervous and afraid to hear bad news about Ye Xian from Ye Yishen.
"One drop of blood is effective for one hour..." Ye Yishen explained while forcing out another drop of blood.
It turns out that the secret technique of finding relatives through blood has a time limit. Ye Chenyuan breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that nothing happened to Ye Xian. Thinking of the time wasted in breaking the formation, he said, "Use my blood next time."
"Okay." Ye Yishen did not argue. Maybe they would be able to find Ye Xian soon.
The other end of the cave ruins.
Five people dressed in black and wearing masks are engaging in a fierce battle with two monks, a man and a woman. Their figures intertwined and their moves were fierce, causing gusts of wind to echo at the door of the stone chamber and stirring up clouds of dust.
Outside the center of this fierce battle, a handsome young man was concentrating on breaking the formation outside the stone chamber.
The young man was Ye Yuncheng.
His eyes were focused and determined, and he kept deducing methods to break the formation, as if the whole world could not disturb him.
Beside him, a male cultivator was lying quietly.
The male cultivator’s name is Qi Jinggeng.
His face was pale and his lips were purple, obvious symptoms of poisoning.
[Junior Brother Ye, how is your research going? We can't hold out for long. 】The female cultivator who fought against them was named Shi Yingying. While struggling to resist the fierce attack of the man in black, she anxiously transmitted the message.
The male cultivator who fought alongside her shared most of the pressure, so she had time to message Ye Yuncheng.
The male cultivator is named Duan Xiu, and he is in the late Jindan stage.
Among the four, three have reached the Jindan stage, and Ye Yuncheng has the lowest level, only the late foundation-building stage.
Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Ye Yuncheng replied without even looking up: [Senior Sister Shi, I have found the direction. Please give me a little more time. 】
It turned out that Shi Yingying accidentally learned about the existence of this cave ruins, so she invited several people to come and search for treasures.
The reason why Ye Yuncheng was invited was that although his cultivation was not high, he was able to break the third-level formation.
Who would have expected that after the four of them had gone through untold hardships and broken through numerous mechanisms and formations, they would encounter several men in black when they arrived at this stone chamber.
Without saying a word, several men in black launched a fierce attack on them, immediately putting them in a tough fight. In order to protect everyone, Qi Jinggeng, who had the highest level of cultivation, resolutely blocked the poisonous powder scattered by the man in black, and was seriously injured as a result.
[Okay, Junior Brother Ye, we will try our best to hold out until you break the formation! Shi Yingying gritted her teeth, took out a few talismans from her bag, activated them, and threw them at the man in black.
With Ye Yuncheng's full efforts to crack it, the formation in front of the stone chamber door showed a slight loosening.
The formation barrier flickered, as if it would collapse at any time.
Seeing this scene, several men in black intensified their attacks.
Seeing that they were no match for their opponent, Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu had no choice but to take out their extra magic weapons and resolutely decided to buy more time by self-destruction.
Finally, after Ye Yuncheng placed the last formation flag, the formation barrier that had stubbornly resisted completely dissipated like fragile bubbles, leaving only a faint spiritual energy in the air.
After losing the restraint of the formation, the heavy stone door slowly rose upwards, revealing a passage leading to the stone chamber.
Seeing this scene, Ye Yuncheng picked up the seriously injured Qi Jinggeng without hesitation and walked quickly towards the deep passage. As he ran, he called out to his companions, "Brother Duan, Sister Shi, the formation has been broken."
In fact, he didn't need to call out, because everyone else present saw it.
Because Yingying and the other person blocked the men in black, Ye Yuncheng quickly entered the passage.
After putting Qi Jinggeng safely on the ground, Ye Yuncheng turned around and saw a man in black holding a magic sword suddenly appear behind Duan Xiu.
Seeing that the magic sword in the black-clothed man's hand was about to pierce Duan Xiu through, he quickly took out a formation plate and threw it at the black-clothed man.
The man in black noticed something strange and caught a glimpse of a black object flying towards him from the corner of his eye. Mistaking it for a hidden weapon, he quickly retracted his magic sword and jumped back a few steps to avoid its sharp edge.
The moment the array plate landed on the ground, the area within a hundred meters was tightly covered by its own second-level trap array. Ye Yuncheng followed closely behind him and entered the trap, quickly bringing Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu out.
"This trap is only level 2, and it won't last for two minutes. Senior Sister Shi, Senior Brother Duan, you go through the passage first, I'll be right there."
Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu ran into the passage in a few steps.
Seeing the mechanism to close the stone door, the two pressed it without hesitation.
Ye Yuncheng changed the way out of the trap and when he turned to enter the passage, he saw that the stone door was actually descending. The speed was so fast that he couldn't catch up and enter the passage.
Unless the people inside can open the stone door.
However, Duan Xiu and Shi Yingying inside the stone gate gave him a victorious smile and waved goodbye to him. They clearly played the game of crossing the river and then destroying the bridge.
Shi Yingying and the other person probably thought that the treasure of this cave ruins was in the stone chamber behind the stone gate, but they didn't want to share it with Ye Yuncheng. So they left him outside, and there happened to be men in black outside.
Finally, the stone door closed completely in front of Ye Yuncheng.
Although abandoned by his companions, Ye Yuncheng did not show any frustration on his face. When he was invited to join the treasure hunt, he was already prepared to be abandoned at any time.
The result really lived up to his expectations.
He spread out his hands, and three identical teleportation jade slips appeared out of thin air in his hands. Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu thought that if they closed the only stone door that could lead to his entry, he would not be able to get in.
Oh, but they didn't know that he already had the key to go in directly.
really.
He was right not to tell anyone about the jade slip transmission at first.
Every time he unlocks ten formations, he will get such a teleportation jade slip.
If he guessed correctly, the owner of this cave ruins was a formation master. The cultivator who obtains the teleportation jade slip will have the opportunity to obtain the inheritance left by the owner of the cave ruins.
Activate the teleportation jade slip and you should be teleported to the location of the inheritance.
A second before the five men in black broke the trap, Ye Yuncheng disappeared out of thin air.
Inside the stone gate.
Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu thought that the treasure was in the stone chamber, but they didn't know that those who entered through the stone door would not be able to get the treasure or inheritance at all. What they left behind was not Ye Yuncheng, but a shortcut to the place of inheritance or the place where the treasure was stored.
Duan Xiu stretched out his hands and hugged Shi Yingying's slender waist: "Yingying, let's go."
Shi Yingying glanced at Qi Jinggeng, who was lying half-dead on the ground, and asked, "Brother Qi, how do you solve this problem?"
Duan Xiu said ruthlessly: "Don't worry about him, he was poisoned by the bone-piercing poison. Unless he can get the antidote from those black-clothed men outside within an hour. Otherwise, without the antidote, he will definitely die."
Shi Yingying withdrew her gaze and walked towards the stone chamber with Duan Xiu.
Hearing the footsteps of the two people getting farther and farther away, Qi Jinggeng, who had originally had his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. His pale face slowly regained its color, and his purple lips slowly turned back to red.
He doesn't look like he's been poisoned.
Looking at the direction where the two people disappeared, the corners of his mouth raised in a mocking arc.
It's really a good show.
He was poisoned by a bone-piercing poison, but he took the antidote before he was poisoned. Because he is in the same group with those men in black outside.
After he could no longer see the two people, he restrained his own aura. Standing up, he pressed the mechanism to open the stone door.
All five men in black walked into the passage.
"Did you kill the people who stayed outside?"
The five people looked at each other.
One of the quick-thinking people replied, "We were trapped in a level 2 formation just now. After we broke through the formation, we didn't see anyone except the five of us."
It seems that Ye Yuncheng has left.
"Everyone, be gentle and follow me." Qi Jinggeng called out to everyone and took the lead to walk towards the stone chamber.
Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu walked into the stone chamber and saw rows of boxes filled with high-quality spirit stones. The two of them stepped forward with joy. As a result, they had only taken a few steps when the boxes filled with high-quality spirit stones disappeared.
Instead, there were human skeletons.
In this situation, it was obvious that they had walked into some kind of formation.
Without Ye Yuncheng, the formation master, the two of them were like headless flies, attacking randomly in the formation. Soon, the two discovered that this formation was absorbing the spiritual energy in their bodies.
Qi Jinggeng and the man in black who came in later saw Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu holding the spirit stones and kept saying, "There are so many spirit stones, they are all ours."
Several people stepped forward immediately, but after taking a few steps, the scene they had just seen turned into Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu sitting cross-legged among a pile of bones.
When Shi Yingying and Duan Xiu saw Qi Jinggeng coming in with several men in black, they knew that they had been tricked by Qi Jinggeng. But now everyone is trapped in the formation. If the formation is not broken, their fate will be the same as the skeletons around them.
Ye Yuncheng had no idea what had happened to his companions.
At this moment, he was in another stone chamber with simple decoration and full of mystery. This stone chamber seems like a natural cave, with intricate and ancient patterns carved on its stone walls, exuding a solemn and dignified atmosphere.
In the center of the stone chamber hangs a lifelike portrait. The painting depicts a kind-looking, white-haired old man with a gentle smile on his face.
Below the portrait is an exquisitely decorated desk with ten jade boxes neatly placed on it. These jade boxes are protected by an invisible barrier, which makes people want to find out what’s inside.
In front of the desk, there was a cushion that was worn out but still as clean as new.
When Ye Yuncheng approached the portrait, a line of faint words miraculously appeared on the portrait: "Anyone who kneels down to worship me will receive the same gift; if someone with a talent for formations kneels down, they will have a chance to inherit my legacy."
Most people, when they see it, will kneel down and give it a try, no matter if it’s real or fake.
But Ye Yuncheng stroked his chin, looked at the abrupt words on the portrait, and said to himself: "It's just the inheritance left by a Yuanying stage cultivator. My master is a Lianxu stage cultivator and a sixth-level formation master."
"If I kneel down to a stranger for a treasure I don't know what it is, my master will definitely beat me up when he finds out."
The implication is that he will not kneel down.
"If I had known the situation here was like this, I wouldn't have come in."
After saying that, he began to look around the entire stone chamber, as if looking for a way out.
What Ye Yuncheng didn't see was that after he turned around, the white-haired old man in the portrait suddenly blinked.
The stone chamber separated from him by only a wall was more like a natural cave carefully carved by nature, filled with extremely rich wind-attributed spiritual energy.
These wind spirits are like invisible and intangible liquids, filling every corner of the stone chamber and condensing into a mysterious and powerful energy field.
A man was sitting cross-legged in the center of the stone chamber, and the wind spiritual energy from all around was rushing into his body. The strands of energy gathered into a powerful flow, continuously nourishing his meridians and dantian.
This person is Ye Xian, whom Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan are looking for.
A few days ago, Ye Xian and Yuan Jingcheng stepped into a killing array together and were unexpectedly separated by a mysterious force.
Ye Xian, who was extremely lucky, was somehow teleported to this stone chamber filled with wind spiritual energy.
Finding himself alone in the stone chamber, Ye Xian looked around but could not find a way to leave.
So he decided to practice on the spot.
Ye Yuncheng arrived at the cave ruins one month earlier than him and Yuan Jingcheng, but because they did not take the same route, they never met.
On the other side, Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan once again violently broke through a trap, but the drop of blood that was pointing the way to their relatives stopped at a fork in the road.
Seeing this scene, Ye Chenyuan pondered: "Will the two roads eventually converge?"
"It should be possible, probably!" Ye Yishen replied uncertainly. It was also the first time he encountered such a situation.
Neither the grandfather nor the grandson had ever thought that there would be two people of the same bloodline as them in the ruins of this cave.
After taking a look, Ye Chenyuan felt that both roads were similar, so he asked, "Which way should we go?"
"I feel the road here is less dangerous." Ye Yishen pointed to the right.
On the right is the road that Ye Yuncheng and his companions walked, and on the left is the road that Ye Xian and Yuan Jingcheng walked.
Ye Xian and Yuan Jingcheng had not walked far before they entered a powerful killing array. One of them used the boundary-breaking teleportation talisman to leave the cave ruins, and the other was teleported into the stone chamber.
Therefore, compared to the path that Ye Yuncheng and his companions took, the formation on the path that Ye Xian and his companions took was more powerful.
"Then let's go this way." Ye Chenyuan made the decision immediately.
The grandfather and grandson took a few steps forward, and the drop of blood that pointed the way immediately flew in front of them.
It might be because the formations on the right were all solved by Ye Yuncheng. Even if these formations were restored, the drop of blood seeking relatives could accurately lead the two of them out of the gate of life every time.
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