Chapter 143 I Open the Gate in the Name of the Mountain

Even though he was imprisoned, there was no sign of worry on Gu Fanzhou's face, but his complexion was rather pale.

His pale face is due to torture.

The Jindan master who captured him was not a good person. He interrogated him first, but Gu Fanzhou resisted and said nothing.

Moreover, other Jindan masters came after hearing the news, which made this late Jindan master afraid to act rashly and he could only imprison Gu Fanzhou temporarily.

Every time Gu Fanzhou was interrogated, all the Jindan masters paid close attention. They all wanted to find out the whereabouts of the mountain gate's token, but they did not want other Jindan masters to know.

The mentality of these Jindan powerhouses resulted in Gu Fanzhou not receiving severe punishment.

Because these people were afraid of taking extreme measures against Gu Fanzhou, Gu Fanzhou would not be able to bear it and would really tell the whereabouts of the mountain gate token.

They thought that they were the only ones who knew the whereabouts of the mountain gate token.

However, these Jindan powerhouses are patient now because they are still unable to enter Wenjin Mountain. When they can enter, they can only use some means to force Gu Fanzhou to tell them. It is better to have so many people scrambling for the mountain gate token than to have no mountain gate token at all.

Gu Fanzhou knew this and he was prepared for it.

"The longer I can buy Junior Brother Chu some time, the more time I'll have until these Jindan masters can enter Wenjin Mountain. By then, even if they know that the mountain gate token is not with me, they won't have time to search for Junior Brother Chu's whereabouts."

After finishing his training, Gu Fanzhou whispered in his heart while looking at the bright moon at night.

When he came back to ask Jin Cheng, he had already prepared himself mentally to be caught and had expected that he would be imprisoned.

But he still came.

As long as he neither admits nor denies, these Jindan powerhouses will assume that the mountain gate token was taken away by him.

In this way, the disciples of Wenjin Sect who are still staying in Wenjin City will no longer be captured and interrogated by these Jindan powerhouses, and this will also buy time for Junior Brother Chu.

"I hope I can ask those outer disciples of this sect to gain more opportunities this time."

Thanks to the bronze mirror over there, even though he was imprisoned, Gu Fanzhou could still see the battle on Wenjin Mountain through the bronze mirror in the air.

In this mirror, he had already seen several outer disciples of the Wenjin Sect.

The foundation-building cultivators of Wenjin Sect are easy to recognize, but the outer disciples are relatively less conspicuous, and those Jindan powerhouses will not pay attention to them.

These outer disciples all gained something, and one of them even snatched a Tao fruit, but he cannot refine it yet.

The spiritual tide of the Qi Condensation Realm of the Wenjin Sect will last for seven days. After the seventh day, the cultivators who have not obtained the opportunity will be driven out of Wenjin Mountain, while the cultivators who have obtained the skills, magic weapons and Tao fruits will be teleported out of Wenjin City by Wenjin Mountain.

Maybe it's a hundred miles away, maybe a thousand miles away, or even tens of thousands of miles away.

Three days ago, the Jindan expert who made the statement had no idea about this situation, so he threatened the cultivators who were entering the mountain.

Gu Fanzhou knew this because several late Jindan powerhouses mentioned it in their conversation when he was pressed about the whereabouts of the mountain gate's token these days.

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Day 6! The fight between Wen Jinshan has reached its final, white-hot stage.

Half of the four thousand monks who entered the city have died, and the low-level monks in the city feel chilled to the bone when they see this.

The cruelty of the fight for opportunity was laid out before their eyes.

Half of them died, and the remaining people were less than 300 people, because some of them chose to withdraw voluntarily due to injuries and loss of combat effectiveness, while others realized the gap between their own strength and that of others and finally gave up.

Up to now, the people watching the battle could not count the number of skills and magic weapons washed down by the spiritual tide of the entire Wenjin Mountain, because the bronze mirror could not display the entire Wenjin Mountain area, but only one area. Wherever a war broke out, the bronze mirror would lock onto that place.

Wherever a war breaks out, it is all for the fight for the Dao Fruit.

The number of Dao Fruits was clearly recorded, one hundred and thirty-three Dao Fruits, of which a dozen were five-colored Dao Fruits.

The five-colored Dao fruit represents the energy of the late stage of foundation building. If it can be refined, not only can one build the foundation, but one can also continue to break through, at least to the middle stage of foundation building.

In the entire Wenjin City, it might take three years for a powerful foundation-building expert to emerge, but this wave of opportunities can produce 133 powerful foundation-building experts.

This is truly a gift from the mountains.

No other sect has such strength and foundation.

It's still that manor.

Gu Fanzhou suddenly retracted his gaze from the sky mirror because there was a shining light around him.

Someone is trying to break the formation? This was the first thought that came to Gu Fanzhou's mind. There was a formation set up by a Jindan expert in his yard. If this happened, it meant that someone wanted to break the formation and get close to him.

Is it another Jindan master? Gu Fanzhou's mind was spinning rapidly, and almost at the same time as the surrounding light shone, several angry shouts rang out.

Several terrifying auras instantly rushed towards the yard.

However, at the moment when these auras fell on the yard, the ground under Gu Fanzhou's feet suddenly cracked, and then vines emerged, instantly wrapped Gu Fanzhou into a ball, and dragged him underground.

From the appearance of the formation's brilliance to Gu Fanzhou being dragged underground, all this happened in a flash, in just a breath of time.

Although several Jindan powerhouses discovered it quickly, they still took a moment to open the formation because of the obstruction of the formation. Even if they activated the formation immediately, it still took them a moment.

“How outrageous!”

An old man with eagle eyes had a grim look on his face. He summoned a flying sword and slashed it directly towards the ground.

The entire manor was split in half by this sword, and a deep trench hundreds of meters deep appeared on the ground.

At the same time, the other two Jindan powerhouses also took action at the same time. One of them raised his right hand, and three flags shot up into the sky, spinning in the air. One of the flags fell like a meteor and shot towards the west.

Seeing the flag shooting towards the west, the three Jindan powerhouses arrived instantly. At the same time, several terrifying auras spread towards the west in the city.

"Which fellow Taoist would do such a cowardly thing!"

In the eyes of these Jindan powerhouses, the person who took Gu Fanzhou away must have wanted to interrogate Gu Fanzhou privately in order to take the mountain gate's token for himself.

“Cut, cut, cut!”

There was a Jindan strongman who formed seals with his hands and shouted loudly, and the ground to the west cracked every hundred feet.

"If you were to let him take her away right under our noses, then we wouldn't bother trying to snatch this Nascent Soul opportunity."

A carriage flew out of the city, and the carriage suddenly enlarged at this moment, blocking out the sky and the sun.

An old man walked out of the carriage. He was wearing a simple Taoist robe, but he exuded an indescribable majestic aura, as if he had infinite power and could control everything in the world.

The appearance of the old man made the faces of several other Jindan elders at the scene change, and there was a hint of fear in their eyes.

"seal up!"

The old man in Taoist robe put his hand on the carriage, and then reached out to grab the carriage, but grabbed a piece of vine.

"It's actually a tree demon. How dare a tree demon covet the mountain gate's token."

The old man in Taoist robes reached his hand into the carriage again, but this time his palm was filled with fire.

Plant-type demon cultivators are most afraid of fire.

As the old man in Taoist robe reached his hand into the carriage, a fiery red line appeared on the ground dozens of miles away.

"Everyone, I leave the rest to you. I want to lock onto this tree monster."

The old man in Taoist robe spoke loudly, and the other Jindan masters did not need to say much, and now they went straight to chase the red line underground.

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In Juling City, inside the Xu family courtyard.

Chu Ning's face was solemn because he felt the terrifying energy fluctuations coming.

Grandma Tree took action tonight, and now there is terrifying energy spreading, which can only be related to Grandma Tree's rescue of Senior Brother Gu.

So it was Granny Shu who rescued Senior Brother Gu, but was hunted down by those Jindan masters? "Chun Ning, did you ask Granny to rescue Gu Fanzhou?"

Just as Chu Ning was thinking, Xu Ruobing's figure walked into the yard. Xu Ruobing's face was frosty and she looked at Chu Ning unkindly. When Chu Ning stayed in the Xu family, she asked her mother-in-law whether she wanted to save Gu Fanzhou, but her mother-in-law did not answer.

Just now, she felt the energy fluctuations of a Jindan powerhouse approaching the Juling City. The first thing she did was to go to the yard where her mother-in-law lived. When she found that her mother-in-law was not in the yard, she felt a little uneasy and immediately came to find Chu Ning.

Now seeing Chu Ning's solemn expression, Xu Ruobing knew that his guess was correct.

"Friend Xu, this is indeed true."

Chu Ning smiled bitterly. Xu Ruobing didn't even call him fellow Taoist but just called him by his name. It was obvious that he was angry.

Xu Ruobing took a deep breath and forced herself to suppress the anger in her heart. Although she was angry with Chu Ning, she also knew that this was her mother-in-law's own choice.

My mother-in-law doesn’t have much time left. If Chu Ning doesn’t want to, no matter what conditions he offers, it will be impossible to attract her.

After glaring at Chu Ning, Xu Ruobing turned and left.

"Where are you going, Fellow Daoist Xu?"

"I want to go see my mother-in-law."

Hearing what Xu Ruobing said, Chu Ning frowned. The battle between Jindan powerhouses was not something that they, the foundation-building cultivators, could get involved in.

Moreover, before the action, the tree demon senior had specifically instructed me to help keep an eye on Xu Ruobing.

"Friend Xu..."

"You want to stop me?"

Xu Ruobing turned her head to the side, and a red silk appeared on her hand.

"groove!"

Lao Hei suddenly roared in Chu Ning's mind: "The red silk that this woman is holding is made of snake tendons."

Chu Ning: "I didn't extract your tendons to refine it, why are you yelling?"

Chu Ning ignored Lao Hei's words and looked at Xu Ruobing: "I don't intend to stop you, I just want to go with you, Daoist Fellow Xu."

Xu Ruobing is a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, and she definitely has a lot of hidden cards. It might not be possible for him to stop this woman by force.

The only option was to travel with Xu Ruobing, and then make a temporary decision if there was an emergency.

Xu Ruobing looked at Chu Ning deeply, but did not refuse.

The two of them flew quickly out of the city on their swords and headed towards Wenjin City. What made Chu Ning feel relieved was that many foundation-building cultivators were also heading towards Wenjin City.

These foundation-building cultivators had no intention of asking Jinshan for the opportunity for some reasons of their own, but at this moment they were all attracted by the movement outside the city.

Mixed in with these people, I won't stand out.

A quarter of an hour later, a loud shout rang out.

"Today I want to see where you, a tree demon, can escape to!"

As the roar sounded, a fire dragon rose into the sky dozens of miles away.

The fire dragon lit up the night sky.

Chu Ning and Xu Ruobing both saw the vines being swept and burned by the fire dragon.

The vines are several dozen feet thick.

At the same time, several flying swords in the sky slashed down at the vines.

When Xu Ruobing saw this scene, his whole body was trembling, and Chu Ning's face was also extremely ugly, but before Xu Ruobing could make any move, he suddenly launched the Soul-Destroying Spear.

Xu Ruobing, who was flying the sword, was startled, and the next moment he stumbled and fell. Chu Ning was prepared. He flipped his hand and a rope fell on Xu Ruobing, tying him up.

At the same time, Chu Ning summoned the underground boat and took Xu Ruobing directly into the underground boat and headed towards the city.

"Chun Ning, what are you doing!"

Inside the underground boat, Xu Ruobing shouted angrily. She didn't expect Chu Ning to suddenly attack her.

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"I'm asking you to calm down. The battle between powerful Jindan masters is not something you and I can participate in. Before Senior Tree Demon left, he told me to keep an eye on you."

"I don't need you to look after me. Do you think this soul-locking rope can control me?"

Xu Ruobing's body was emitting spiritual energy. Chu Ning knew, of course, that this soul-locking rope could not really tie up Xu Ruobing. This soul-locking rope was only a mid-grade spiritual weapon, a gift from a senior brother when he held a thank-you banquet for the mid-stage foundation building stage.

The Soul Locking Rope can only control a cultivator like Xu Ruobing who is in the late stage of foundation building for a dozen breaths at most.

If he hadn't suddenly attacked with the Soul-Destroying Spear, this Soul-Locking Rope wouldn't even be able to tie up Xu Ruobing.

"How come you are so damn stubborn, woman?"

Seeing that Xu Ruobing was about to break free from the soul-locking rope, Chu Ning was extremely annoyed at this moment, and slapped Xu Ruobing on a certain part without hesitation.

This slap made Xu Ruobing stunned for a moment, but Chu Ning did not stop. He took advantage of Xu Ruobing's distraction and took away the storage bag from his waist.

"If you use your spiritual power to break free again, I will strip you of your clothes. You are going to die anyway, so you don't have to care about your face."

Chu Ning looked at Xu Ruobing fiercely with his hands raised. Xu Ruobing did not expect Chu Ning to say such words. This time she was stunned for a full moment.

"I will definitely kill you!"

Hearing Xu Ruobing's murderous words, Chu Ning felt relieved. This woman was still afraid, but she said sarcastically: "Why, aren't you going to die? Why do you care whether you are dressed or not?"

Xu Ruobing bit her lower lip until it turned red. She stared at Chu Ning without saying a word.

Chu Ning simply ignored Xu Ruobing's murderous look, made sure that the woman did not use her spiritual power to break free from the soul-locking rope, controlled the underground boat to return to the Xu family, and came to the yard where the tree demon senior lived.

In the yard where the tree demon senior lived, there was a deep pit on the ground, and a figure was crawling out of the pit in a daze.

The one who climbed out of the deep pit was Gu Fanzhou, and after Chu Ning saw Gu Fanzhou's figure, he also emerged from the underground boat with Xu Ruobing.

"Junior Brother Chu!"

When Gu Fanzhou saw Chu Ning, the confusion on his face disappeared.

So, the tree demon that had snatched him away from the formation and made him appear here was the one Junior Brother Chu had sent to save him? However, when Gu Fanzhou noticed Xu Ruobing who was tied up, he looked confused again.

What’s going on between Junior Brother Chu and the eldest daughter of the Xu family?

"Big Brother, do you have any spiritual weapon that can block this woman's spiritual power?"

Xu Ruobing, who was standing by, felt even colder when she heard Chu Ning's words, but thinking of Chu Ning's threat, she forced herself to endure it.

"This..." Gu Fanzhou hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Brother, you didn't put the storage bag on your body, but this soul-locking rope has another function. It can inject spiritual power into it. As long as the spiritual power of the injector is higher than that of the person being tied, the spiritual power of the person being tied can be locked."

In a sense, the function of the Soul Locking Rope is useless. Since one's spiritual power is richer than the other party, it means that one is stronger than the other party, so there is no need for the Soul Locking Rope. Therefore, the senior brother who gave Chu Ning the Soul Locking Rope did not tell him this.

But it just happens to be useful now, Gu Fanzhou's realm is higher than Xu Ruobing.

Chu Ning handed one end of the soul-locking rope to Senior Brother Gu. After seeing that Xu Ruobing could no longer struggle free after Senior Brother Gu injected spiritual power into it, he felt relieved.

"Brother Chu, what on earth is going on?"

Gu Fanzhou didn't know what was going on between Junior Brother Chu and the eldest daughter of the Xu family, but he definitely stood on the side of his junior brother. After doing what his junior brother said, he asked the reason.

"Brother Gu, the tree demon who saved you is an elder of the Xu family. I was afraid that Fellow Daoist Xu would act rashly, so I had to resort to this desperate measure to trap him."

After listening to Chu Ning's explanation, Gu Fanzhou was a little confused. How could he trap the eldest daughter of the Xu family in this way? And from the look on the eldest daughter's face, it seemed that there was something else going on.

"Friend Xu, I apologize on behalf of Junior Brother Chu. Junior Brother Chu has no other choice. Senior Xu is here to save me. If anyone wants to go, it should be me."

Gu Fanzhou bowed deeply to Xu Ruobing, and Chu Ning felt like he was going to explode.

We finally managed to keep Xu Ruobing under control, and now Senior Brother Gu is going to die again?

Are you all crazy? Do you know why Granny Tree ran towards Giant Spirit City? It was not to attract the Golden Core Masters, nor was it to expect someone to help her, but only within a hundred miles, Granny Tree could activate her racial ability and send Senior Brother Gu out.

This is what Senior Tree Demon told Chu Ning before the action. After sending Senior Brother Gu out, Senior Tree Demon will escape.

The tree demon senior had made arrangements for this yard in advance, and the Jindan powerhouses could not scan it with their spiritual sense. These Jindan powerhouses thought that the tree demon senior was just forced to run in this direction and would not suspect the Xu family.

Just as Chu Ning was about to persuade Senior Brother Gu, another light appeared in the sky outside the city, and the light even illuminated half of the Juling City.

Chu Ning and the other two looked over at the same time.

The sky was filled with flames that burned like a sea of ​​clouds, and in the flames, six flying swords were stuck on a vine, with green liquid dripping from the swords.

It's a torture.

Those powerful Jindan masters were intentionally torturing the tree demon senior.

The next moment, the vines suddenly shook. From Chu Ning and the others' perspective, it seemed that the tree demon was waving to them.

Seeing this scene, Chu Ning suddenly realized that after the tree demon senior promised to save Senior Brother Gu, he never thought about staying alive.

In fact, all he could think of was that the tree demon senior had failed to form a golden elixir. No matter how high his racial talent was, how could it be possible for him to escape from the hands of so many golden elixir powerhouses? He was just believing it out of luck.

Boom! Even though he was hundreds of miles away, Chu Ning still felt the explosion of terrifying energy.

In the sky above, the body of the tree demon elder suddenly exploded.

His body was shattered and green blood spilled from the sky.

Chu Ning clenched his fists tightly. The tree demon senior chose to self-destruct at the last moment.

After a few breaths, everything returned to calm.

In the sky, there was a figure standing on a huge flying sword, a carriage, and a gourd...

Flames floated out of the carriage, and a fire dragon reappeared and fell to the ground.

This is...burning the trees on the ground is a form of venting anger.

At the same time, the figure riding on the flying sword came towards the Giant Spirit City.

But the other party just hovered over the Giant Spirit City for a circle and then left.

Chu Ning looked at Xu Ruobing. At this moment, Xu Ruobing's face was no longer cold, but a look of pain on her pretty face.

"Senior Brother Gu, please look after Fellow Daoist Xu."

"Junior Brother Chu, don't be impulsive in doing anything you want to do!"

Seeing Chu Ning walking towards the gate of the courtyard, Gu Fanzhou hurriedly shouted that if the tree demon senior had not self-destructed, he could show up to attract the attention of these Jindan powerhouses.

But now the tree demon elder has already self-destructed, and everything is irreversible. Being impulsive at this time will only cause the tree demon elder to sacrifice himself in vain.

Gu Fanzhou understood this logic, and Xu Ruobing understood it too. That was why Xu Ruobing did not struggle at this moment, but just stood there stupidly.

"Brother, rest assured. I am not an impulsive person and will not die in vain."

He would not rush into a fight with those powerful Jindan masters in a fit of rage. That would be like hitting a rock with an egg, an extremely foolish act.

Walking out of the courtyard, Chu Ning changed his body shape, transformed into Yao Qihua's appearance, and headed towards the place where the battle was taking place.

Chu Ning was not the only cultivator who rushed to the scene of the battle. There were both Foundation Establishment cultivators and Qi Condensation cultivators.

These monks wanted to see if there was anything good to be gained, and Chu Ning was not conspicuous among them.

"This is not an ordinary fire. Wherever it passes, no grass will grow."

When Chu Ning arrived at the site of the battle, he saw a sea of ​​fire spreading in all directions. Wherever the flames passed, the trees turned to ashes, and even the roots underground were burned.

Wildfires cannot be extinguished; they will spring up again with the spring breeze.

That's because the roots of the grass are still there.

Chu Ning had a calm expression on his face, and even chatted with a foundation-building cultivator beside him: "How angry is this Jindan senior? It looks like he wants to burn all the trees in this area."

"Who said it wasn't? And it looks like many seniors surrounded and killed the tree demon. The demon cultivators dared to act so recklessly in our cultivators' territory. They deserved to die."

"That makes sense."

Chu Ning nodded, but deep in his eyes there was an imperceptible murderous intent.

He didn't know whether those Jindan powerhouses were watching him secretly, so he didn't dare to behave abnormally, let alone put out the fire. He could only watch the trees being swallowed by the sea of ​​fire.

After a long time, Chu Ning made an excuse to search the surroundings and then flew away on his sword, heading towards Wenjin City.

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The morning light is dim and the morning sun is just beginning to appear.

Only a hundred miles away from Wenjin City, Chu Ning fell to the ground from the air.

Not far in front of his feet was a deep pit that was several dozen feet deep.

This was left behind by the Jindan powerhouses last night in order to force the tree monster to swing its sword.

Chu Ning looked at the deep pit, and a piece of iron appeared in his hand. He held the iron piece and injected spiritual power into it.

The word "山" on the iron sheet began to glow.

The light was just a point at first, but as Chu Ning injected spiritual power into it, the light slowly flowed to other areas of the mountain character like water.

When the entire mountain character was filled with light, Chu Ning whispered, "In the name of the mountain, I entered the treasure mountain and opened the mountain gate."

As soon as he finished speaking, special energy emanated from the iron sheet, and the next moment Chu Ning's figure disappeared along with the iron sheet.

(End of this chapter)