Chapter 1395: A Desperate Counterattack
Jia Fugui and Donglin Tingyue were not slow to act either. Without the slightest hesitation, they immediately activated various magical treasures. In an instant, those magical treasures began to emit a restless and extremely violent power.
Jia Fugui’s entire person had thinned down in an instant. In almost a flash, he had squeezed out all the magical power in his body. Otherwise, he would not have been able to activate so many magical treasures at the same time.
Fortunately, activating magical treasures here relied more on the power of Divine Sense, with magical power as a supplement. He only needed to divide his Divine Sense into more than twenty strands and detonate the formations within the magical treasures, instead of using his magical power to blow them up.
If that were the case, even if he were a Late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator, he would only be able to blow up one or two magical treasures of this level at the same time.
In just another half a breath, the two of them could have charged their magical treasures to the maximum and engaged in a final bombardment with the old woman surnamed He.
And at this moment, the old woman surnamed He, who was outside the room, suddenly looked in a direction on the deck. Then she suddenly snorted coldly.
“Hmph, to think you’ve hidden so deeply! A few of you, go and break the restrictions here and kill the people inside!”
The old woman surnamed He suddenly withdrew the ghost-faced banner. In a flicker, her figure shot towards a location on the deck.
At the same time, her voice was transmitted to the ears of the group of six cultivators who were searching the rooms.
Because in her Divine Sense, she had suddenly sensed a faint aura, moving on the middle section of the flying skiff’s deck, and the direction was actually towards the stairs to the second level.
This made the old woman surnamed He greatly alarmed. In an instant, she thought of the doubt she had just had.
“So there really was someone else not in their room!”
If this person really appeared on the second level, although it was impossible for them to cause any harm to the female cultivator surnamed Yuan, she would have no face left. In the future, no matter what, she would not be able to hold her head up.
This sudden change on the old woman surnamed He’s part stunned everyone here. They didn’t know what had happened.
Especially the twelve Nascent Soul cultivators who were searching on the deck. They had not sensed anything at all, and the old woman surnamed He had already arrived a few dozen zhang in front of them.
That was the edge of the deck near the side of the skiff. In their Divine Senses, it was a completely empty area.
And inside the room, Jia Fugui was already trembling all over, his face flushed red. Donglin Tingyue was also controlling four magical treasures with all her might, about to fly out of the room.
The Rouge Bird was standing on her shoulder, with wisps of red mist rising from its body. In its eyes, there was also an incomparably sharp killing intent.
At this moment, the aura on this demonic beast had actually reached the appearance of the early fourth rank. They planned to take advantage of the shockwave from the magical treasure’s explosion to rush out. At that time, they would fight to the death, one for one.
Or perhaps they could take this opportunity to hide again in the chaos, and try to delay for as long as possible.
It was just that with so many magical treasures self-detonating, although their Divine Senses could control the direction of the magical treasures’ self-detonation, the distance was too close. Even they themselves were not sure they could survive. They were just preparing for the off chance that they could escape.
But at this juncture, the old woman surnamed He suddenly flew towards the deck. She had actually left!
The other party seemed to have discovered something, and had left very suddenly, without any warning.
Under such an abrupt change, Jia Fugui and Donglin Tingyue were also stunned, and then their faces changed dramatically, and they were in a flurry.
Fortunately, the power of their Divine Senses was already like an extension of their limbs, so they did not immediately detonate.
“Did… did she discover that we were going to self-detonate our magical treasures?” Jia Fugui panted heavily. He had to control more magical treasures, and in his haste to withdraw the power of his Divine Sense, his already extremely painful sea of consciousness now made him feel an impulse to bang his head against the wall.
He was in so much pain that his face turned pale, and sweat fell like a waterfall.
Just as they were about to detonate their magical treasures, and the power of their Divine Senses was about to touch the center of the formation, at this most critical moment, the old woman surnamed He had suddenly moved far away from the center of the explosion.
Although with so many magical treasures self-detonating, the entire giant skiff could be considered the “center,” but for a Spirit Transformation cultivator, moving even a foot away would make a complete difference in the damage they would block.
“I… I don’t know!”
Donglin Tingyue, also due to the sudden interruption of her Divine Sense, was in so much pain that her entire body was constantly trembling, but she gritted her teeth and did not cry out in pain.
And at this moment, they sensed six auras quickly approaching this place from outside the room…
On the deck, the old woman surnamed He had already reached the edge of the skiff. This was where the aura had last disappeared.
The old woman surnamed He’s gloomy eyes constantly scanned the surroundings. The twelve Nascent Soul cultivators behind her also quickly gathered, but they did not immediately approach without being summoned.
The position where the old woman surnamed He was standing was a section near the middle of the skiff.
Just now, among the Nascent Soul cultivators searching the deck, some had already crossed their Divine Senses and magical treasures to probe this place, but their probes had actually passed directly over the faint aura without a single one discovering it.
The old woman surnamed He had not expected that there would be other hidden people on the deck. The other party also had an extremely brilliant concealment magical treasure.
Seeing that the twelve people she had arranged had already searched to the middle of the skiff, the other party was taking advantage of her attention being focused on the room to quietly move towards the bow.
Was this to get to the second level to increase their chances of survival?
Truly cunning. If she hadn’t happened to exit the room just now, these twelve Nascent Soul cultivators would really not have been able to discover the other party. It was really possible that they would have let the other party run to the bow.
From the concealment effect of the other party’s current magical treasure, and the fact that its aura had completely disappeared again, it meant that the magical treasure had only leaked a trace of its aura when it moved just now, but this was also a magical treasure of an extremely high level.
Once this person got to the second level, with so many Spirit Transformation cultivators up there, it would be easy for a situation of “darkness under the lamp” to occur.
In the end, they might even suspect that they had missed something in their search of the first level. And if they couldn’t find him in the end, they might even guess that the person had tried to leave the flying skiff in the chaos out of extreme fear.
“Hmph, the power of a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Divine Sense, how could an ant like you possibly know!”
Although the other party had fooled all the Nascent Soul cultivators, they had still been discovered by her.
If she hadn’t known the exact number of people, she might have thought it was a mistake just now. This time, she had really let this person escape.
At the same time, the old woman surnamed He also became interested in the storage pouches of these last few people.
She would definitely personally collect the things on these few people. This must be the real trump card left behind by the “Blood Lantern Sect.”
They were equipped with so many extraordinary magical treasures, even more than the three direct disciples of the “Blood Lantern Sect.”
“Chen Xingshan is truly cunning, using a diversion. If it had really come to a fight, he would have really succeeded this time…”
After landing on the deck, the old woman surnamed He thought to herself while her Divine Sense began to scan the surroundings.
The aura just now seemed to have been startled and had stopped moving, and had actually perfectly merged with the surrounding environment.
One breath, two breaths… three breaths later, the room where Donglin Tingyue and the other two were once again erupted with a violent roar and attack!
But on this side, the old woman surnamed He’s face became ugly. She had actually failed to find any trace of the other party again.
The dozen or so people standing behind her, one by one, did not know what had happened. They only saw the old woman surnamed He let out a cold snort for no reason, and then flew here and began to search everywhere.
“That’s not right. Could it be that he reached the bow of the skiff in an instant with his speed? But based on his previous performance, at that speed, it would only increase his chances of being exposed…”
“When that person moved before, I didn’t seem to have any sense of it. He suddenly appeared in my senses, and his aura leakage also happened to have fooled the Nascent Soul…”
“If it were me, I should be most wary of the Spirit Transformation cultivator. And if I were to move… it would be when the Spirit Transformation cultivator is fighting with others, not when the Spirit Transformation cultivator’s attack has stopped… no… not good!”
Just as the old woman surnamed He was looking around and could no longer find any trace of that aura, she was thinking about the other party’s possible whereabouts, as well as their current psychology.
Her face suddenly changed. As she moved and investigated, at this very moment, six feet in front of her, an aura that made even the old woman surnamed He’s heart pound suddenly erupted.
Following the appearance of this torrential aura, a figure appeared out of thin air in an instant.
A distance of six feet, this was almost face-to-face. In the old woman surnamed He’s shocked gaze, her reaction was also extremely fast, and a terrifying aura erupted from her entire body as well.
As she raised her arm, a ghastly green ghost-faced banner had already appeared in her hand, and she was about to unfurl it towards the figure.
“Bang! Boom!”
Her reaction was very fast, but the other party was even faster. A distance of six feet was completely non-existent for them, it was equivalent to being face-to-face.
Almost as soon as that aura appeared, the attack had already reached the old woman surnamed He’s face.
Two loud bangs sounded almost simultaneously!
The first loud bang came from the ground behind the figure, and the second loud bang came from the violent collision between the two in an instant. The person’s speed was already faster than sound…
Rewinding time, after Li Yan had scouted out the stairs leading to the second level, his thoughts raced, and one plan after another quickly appeared in his mind.
“There’s been fighting down here all this time, and there are all sorts of explosions from breaking formations, yet no one from above has come down.”
“This means that the people above don’t care about the fight below at all. After all, the number of people here is fixed, and their cultivation levels are also set.”
“Therefore, in their eyes, the outcome of the fight below will not have any changes. If I want to hold out until the ‘Great Nothingness Tree’ area, now is the best time to weaken the other party’s strength…”
Just as one plan after another came to Li Yan’s mind, he suddenly heard the old woman surnamed He’s cold laugh.
“…so it’s a formation within a formation?”
He hurriedly swept his Divine Sense over and saw that in the room he had been in before, there were first flashes of light, and then a continuous series of booming sounds.
“She finally found it!”
Li Yan’s heart tightened, and then he saw the old woman surnamed He, amidst the explosions of the techniques, had already retreated from the room, but was still being continuously attacked by the people in the room…
Li Yan of course knew the principle of strength in numbers, and he had to make a move.
But after seeing the old woman surnamed He easily block all the attacks, Li Yan immediately dismissed the idea of going over for a pincer attack.
And Li Yan felt that to kill a Mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator, even with the two in the room, he still had no confidence.
But seeing the situation becoming more and more urgent, Li Yan no longer hesitated in the slightest. A plan he had thought of before immediately appeared, and without hesitation, he put it into action.
He just slid and arrived at the middle of the giant skiff. During this period, he released a trace of his aura, controlling it to a level that only a Spirit Transformation cultivator could detect.
Of course, this plan of his was not too perfect, but in his haste, this was the only way. If the other party did not fall for it, then he could only act according to the situation.
As for the so-called rescue of the two in the room, if it was impossible, he would certainly not act. If Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui died, they died. At most, he would just be adding another life to the cost.