Chapter 1485: Leveraging the Situation to Set a Trap

‘Hmm? Someone nearby is sending me a voice transmission…’

This sudden event made Tang Feng pause for a moment. Although he had a voice transmission soul slip, due to the special rules of the “True Earth Domain,” the transmission distance of the refined voice transmission talismans was usually not too far. This was also an important reason why he couldn’t transmit information back to the sect to ask for help from others.

However, at this critical moment, he didn’t have time to think about it. He immediately held this voice transmission soul slip in his hand, and at the same time, concealed it with an art so that others couldn’t see it, and his soul power poured into it.

“Fall into the misty dense forest below, quick!”

A voice came from inside, the words were very brief.

After hearing what the other party said, Tang Feng was first taken aback. This voice was somewhat familiar to him, but at such a critical juncture, he couldn’t remember who it was.

‘The dense forest below? Are there still people from the sect here?’

The direction Tang Feng was now fleeing in was quite remote. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of fleeing to a place where there might be more people from the sect. But after fleeing for a certain distance, he had immediately abandoned that idea, because he had also encountered people from the nine major forces and had almost been blocked.

Combined with the matter of that Aegis Guard team being suddenly caught in a pincer attack, Tang Feng realized that something had happened to the places the Soul Suppression Palace had attacked from behind. If he could join up with the sect cultivators, that would be good. But he was afraid of being caught in the middle by others, and he was alone. He couldn’t withstand that kind of bombardment, so he immediately chose to detour. But what Tang Feng didn’t know was that someone else, also due to an incident, had also taken a much longer detour. And under this circumstance, they had met.

Tang Feng’s gaze quickly swept downwards. On both sides of the riverbank, one side had a continuous dense forest that spread into the distance, while the other side, after crossing a hilly area, also had a continuous dense forest. And he was currently in the middle of the large river. The dense forest the other party was talking about seemed to be the dense forest not far below his feet. And with just a sweep of his eyes, he indeed saw that in a certain part of the dense forest over there, some faint, ethereal mist was rising, like mist spreading in the forest. This was also a common sight in a dense forest.

At this moment, that was the closest place to him where mist was rising.

Tang Feng’s reaction was also quick enough. He didn’t think about it any further, and he didn’t have time to think about it. He made a sharp turn in the air and fell sharply towards the dense forest on the other side of the river.

This reaction of Tang Feng’s made the three Spirit Transformation cultivators who were surrounding him pause for a moment. Because the direction Tang Feng was heading in was the direction Li Yan had come from, which was the opposite of the Soul Suppression Palace. And he wasn’t fleeing into the distance, but suddenly plummeting downwards.

“Hmph! Even if you enter the Underworld, you must first have your soul scattered and annihilated here!”

The elegant young scholar was the first to react. As his words left his mouth, with a wave of his hand, a red rope with a bell at the end, like a meteor hammer, extended infinitely from the high sky and rapidly smashed towards the back of Tang Feng’s neck.

Tang Feng’s entire body was also flashing wildly with a protective spiritual light. In his hand, he had already held a yellow stone, which was originally intended to be thrown back at the bell. But the other two reacted just as quickly and had also attacked. And one of their attacks had even arrived after but reached first.

At the same time, the three people in the sky also chased after him rapidly. Tang Feng didn’t even have time to turn back. He flicked the flying stone he was holding in his right hand, and it shot out from under his left armpit. A yellow light flashed and arrived a few feet behind him, instantly striking an invisible, sharp energy.

“Bang!”

With an explosion, the flying stone spun and flew horizontally to the other side. And in the invisible, sharp energy, a small, gray mouse was also sent tumbling backwards by the shock. Then, it stabilized its figure in the air. Its pair of small eyes with ghastly white pupils once again stared fiercely at Tang Feng. It was the demonic beast summoned by the short old man. The old man’s several attacks had all been silent. He was a cultivator who was skilled in stealth and assassination.

In his escape, Tang Feng had been successfully ambushed by him several times. Thanks to the protection of various treasures, he had not fallen. But half of the injuries on his body were from this person. Therefore, after suffering so many losses, the one Tang Feng was most wary of was this short old man. That yellow flying stone had just managed to block another one of his sneak attacks a step ahead.

But just as Tang Feng had blocked the first attack, the red rope with the bell had already reached the back of his neck. Under the pincer attack of the three great experts, Tang Feng was given no time to breathe. In addition, he had already spat out blood after blocking the joint attack of the three of them, and the aura in his body was churning.

In this way, in the second wave of the joint attack by the elegant young scholar and the other two, Tang Feng’s magical power and soul power could no longer sustain him. After blocking only one attack, the attack from behind had already arrived. Seeing this, a fierce light flashed in Tang Feng’s eyes, and he steeled himself in his heart.

“Clang!”

“Bang!”

The red rope with the bell at one end struck down from the high sky, and it hit the back of Tang Feng’s neck squarely. The bell first made a crisp sound, and then another cloud of white light erupted from Tang Feng’s neck. With a loud bang, Tang Feng’s body convulsed violently in pain, and a muffled groan also escaped his lips. But his body, at an even faster speed, smashed heavily into the dense forest below.

Tang Feng in the air, at the moment the white light erupted from his neck, his mind also at the same time, heard a crisp “crack” sound. Then he could no longer sense the existence of the jade pendant on his chest. At the last moment, he had still used the only remaining defense he had. He wanted to take this opportunity to escape the encirclement of the three of them as soon as possible. But after using this one chance, the next time he fought the other party, Tang Feng would have to rely on his own strength to defend, without the protection of a turtle shell.

The falling Tang Feng, even with the protection of the jade pendant, because the power within it was already very low. So the moment the bell struck, one of his pos was also shaken out of his Celestial Crown by the sound of the bell.

Tang Feng had long known the remaining power of this jade pendant and had guessed that it could not completely block this attack from the other party, so he had made preparations in advance. He only felt as if his soul had been directly chopped off by a sharp blade. The pain made him unable to help but let out a tragic cry. His heart stopped beating for a moment, as if it had been fiercely grasped by someone and then ruthlessly pulled again. The pain made his entire body instantly soaked in sweat.

But he had been prepared. His reaction was also quick enough. One of his palms had already gathered soul power and fiercely slapped at the po that had just flown out. At the same time, he also spat out a mouthful of turbid qi. Two streams of blood mist also shot out from his two nostrils, like arrows shooting straight down. But all of this was still not enough. With his mind divided, the magical power in his body was desperately and frantically circulated. The magical power poured into the meridians in his body, almost like raging torrents, quickly passing through.

Under such a violent circulation of magical power, in just a short time, cracks appeared in many of the meridians in Tang Feng’s body. But this made his falling speed increase sharply again. And the direction he was falling in was precisely that place where the faint, ethereal mist was emitting.

And all of this, in the eyes of the three people above, they saw that the moment the white light on Tang Feng’s body flashed, his entire person disappeared, sinking into the dense forest below. The three of them did not hesitate at all and also followed like meteors, chasing after him.

Tang Feng fell through the dense treetops. The protective spiritual light on his body broke and knocked down a large number of branches and leaves. And then, he landed heavily on the ground. But his feet landed on something soft, and he almost fell flat on the ground. His incomparably handsome features were already twisted and contorted, ferocious and terrifying.

Tang Feng’s soul power was desperately circulating, and his body staggered. Before he could stabilize his body, the palm he had placed on his Celestial Crown once again fiercely pressed down. Another wave of intense dizziness and endless pain came over him. Under this one press, his consciousness had already begun to blur.

In this hasty situation, one of his pos had been knocked out of his body. This was forcibly pressing a po back into his body. There were no skills or arts to speak of, it was just brute force! Thinking about the scene when Li Yan helped Yu Banjiang sort out his soul back then, that was with the use of arts, and Yu Banjiang had been in so much pain that he was almost dying. What’s more, this extremely brutal act. In this situation, the fact that Tang Feng did not immediately faint was already a testament to his amazing willpower.

And at this moment, a voice had already come to his ears.

“Brother Tang, can you still fight?”

Tang Feng’s heart was suddenly shocked. At this time, his consciousness was only a little clear. He remembered that he was still being chased. In his blurred vision, he forced himself to look to the side. There, a figure had appeared. With a sway, it had already approached him…

…

The three Spirit Transformation cultivators, from three directions, followed Tang Feng and landed in the dense forest. The moment the three of them landed, they all saw Tang Feng in the center, and his swaying figure. The three of them all sneered in their hearts. This time, the other party was really at the end of his rope.

“Hehehe… kid, let’s see where you can run now?” The insidious short old man let out a hehe laugh. The other two also exchanged a glance, and a ferocious smile appeared on their faces. After chasing for so many days, the endless magical treasures and talismans of this kid should finally be used up.

However, none of the three of them had noticed that when they had landed in the dense forest and entered the ethereal mist, the mist had naturally enveloped them. Even after they had been continuously inhaling the mist themselves, they were still unaware.

This was not because they were careless, but because all three of them were native cultivators of the “True Earth Domain.” Their horizons and knowledge could not be compared with cultivators from the outside world. Although they knew that there were Poison Cultivators in this world, and that there were also cultivators among Soul Cultivators who could refine deadly poisons, they had no idea what a true Poison Cultivator was like. In fact, there had been extremely powerful outside Poison Cultivators who had entered the “True Earth Domain,” but that level of Poison Cultivator was extremely rare, and the chances of encountering one were even rarer. Of course, this did not include these three Spirit Transformation realm cultivators.

Just as the three of them had said a word of ridicule and were about to pounce on Tang Feng in the middle, suddenly, their vision blurred. Originally, the three figures who were pouncing together, their figures suddenly froze, and they were stunned on the spot. How did the target suddenly disappear?

They hurriedly looked around, and the next moment, something even more shocking and bizarre happened. It was as if a layer of mist had also risen in their line of sight. Not only had Tang Feng disappeared, but their other two companions had also disappeared.

“Daoist Friend Wu!” “Eh? Daoist Friend Hu, you… you…” “Fellow Daoist friends, there is something strange here!”

Three voices sounded separately in the mist, but in front of the three of them, different scenes had appeared respectively. It was the “appearances born from the heart” of Li Yan’s Illusion Poison. They had no idea that their sea of consciousness was already filled with a kind of poison, and as they breathed, it was still continuously spreading throughout their entire sea of consciousness. And the Illusion Poison that filled it, in their unconscious state, was becoming more and more concentrated. This made the scenes they saw become more and more uncontrollable.

However, the intelligence of the three of them had not been lost. They immediately discovered that something was wrong and opened their mouths to confirm the situation. It didn’t matter when they opened their mouths, but they immediately discovered that although they could hear the voices of others, those voices seemed to be extremely far away, with a sense of being ethereal. At this time, they still did not know that after they had been poisoned in their sea of consciousness, they had also developed auditory hallucinations. Those voices were constantly echoing in their minds.

And Li Yan at this time had also truly unleashed the ethereal poison mist here. It was like a thick fog had risen in the dense forest. Under his control, the mist, with the three of them as the center, continuously spread out!

Watching the three of them, while shouting in alarm, begin to grope in different directions, and the directions they were going in were actually getting further and further apart from each other…

…

Tang Feng was currently standing on a large tree, looking at everything in front of him in horror. At this time, his five senses had already returned to normal, and the turmoil in his soul had also been barely calmed down.

He had been pulled by Li Yan to this large tree and had already left the ethereal mist. The mist, under Li Yan’s control, would not surge over here, as if it was blocked by an invisible barrier.

Before, on the ground, when he first saw Li Yan, he had thought he had seen wrong. The person who had sent the voice transmission was actually Li Yan.

“Li… Daoist Friend Li…”

“This is an illusion formation. Don’t resist. We’ll talk after we get out!”

Seeing the contorted features of Tang Feng, Li Yan didn’t say much. He immediately pulled him. There was Illusion Poison here. If Tang Feng stayed for a while longer, he might not even see him as Li Yan.

Upon hearing this, Tang Feng knew that he had entered an illusion formation. Then he no longer resisted and let Li Yan take him out. What made him marvel was that the three cultivators, who had clearly just landed and were distributed around the two of them, the next moment, he could no longer see them.

On the large tree, Li Yan looked at Tang Feng who was vigilantly looking into the mist. In fact, Tang Feng himself did not know that even though he had come out so quickly, he had stood there in a daze like a fool for several tens of breaths. Of course, this also had to do with his soul being in turmoil and his intelligence being affected!

However, in Tang Feng’s eyes, it was probably only about a breath’s time before Li Yan had pulled him onto the large tree.

And Li Yan was also waiting. He had to wait for the three of them to spread out before he could make a better move.

Li Yan did not intend to use the other Fragmented Poisons and put all of them in to let these three die of poison. He still did not want to expose his identity as a Poison Cultivator. Even if Mu Guyue knew he was a Poison Cultivator, she couldn’t be sure of the level of Li Yan’s poison skills. Moreover, this method, although it seemed terrifying and powerful, did not succeed every time. It required the right time and place.

If that Spirit Transformation cultivator had known of his existence, he might not have fallen into this place so easily, into the trap. Therefore, Li Yan had still taken out a few formation flags in front of Mu Guyue just now as a cover. And when he explained it to Mu Guyue later, he also said it was an illusion formation he had set up.

After hearing this, Mu Guyue didn’t say anything. Before, she and those Golden Core cultivators had been hidden in an illusion formation, just so that others couldn’t easily see through their movements. And Li Yan, out of caution, had also added a defensive formation inside.

Li Yan taking out another illusion formation later was not surprising. So, as long as Li Yan did not use any other Fragmented Poisons, and when he was about to leave, he would also take away those few formation flags in front of Tang Feng and the others. So others would naturally not recognize this as Illusion Poison and not an illusion formation.

Tang Feng’s eyes did not blink as he stared at the three people slowly dispersing in the forest. He stabilized his mind and endured the sharp pain coming from his soul.

“Where is the eye of this formation of yours? We can use the formation’s restrictions to ambush and kill them.”

He didn’t know why Li Yan had appeared here, but at this time, he knew it was not the time to communicate with Li Yan. He was very happy that Li Yan could save him, but he didn’t know how long this formation could trap the other party.

The best way, of course, was to use the formation to ambush and kill these people. He also remembered what Li Yan had asked him just now, whether he could still fight. He could still barely fight, but for Li Yan’s own strength to deal with a Spirit Transformation cultivator, it was not necessarily possible. But how shrewd was Tang Feng? He did not mention Li Yan’s strength.

Tang Feng was carefully observing the effect of this formation. From the looks of it now, it was not bad. Perhaps with the help of the formation, he could barely hold off one enemy. Tang Feng did not ask Li Yan to be able to kill the other party. He had seen Li Yan’s strength at Grandmaster Lan’s place. He was indeed very strong in the Nascent Soul realm.

According to his estimation, with the help of the formation, Li Yan’s strength would of course also increase, possibly reaching the Initial-stage Spirit Transformation. In that case, with the combined strength of the two of them, there was hope to defeat them one by one. And the most important thing at present was that he needed to find out the location of the eye of this formation, so that he could use its power to attack. Even if he couldn’t kill the enemy, if he could seriously injure the other party, he could temporarily relieve some of his worries.

Of course, he had another method, which was to take advantage of the enemy being trapped and leave now. But in that case, Li Yan’s formation would have to be abandoned. And he didn’t know how long this formation could hold the enemy. If it couldn’t hold them for long, and he took Li Yan with him, the other party might still be able to catch up.

Tang Feng was not sure of the value of this formation, but it looked very precious. So he did not, at the first moment, propose that they abandon the formation and leave directly. He had had quite a few interactions with Li Yan, but he knew that this person was very shrewd. Therefore, if he couldn’t defeat the enemy, based on his understanding of Li Yan, he would most likely suggest abandoning the formation and leaving quickly. So, Tang Feng asked Li Yan for his opinion in another way. And he was also a master of formations. In the Dao of formations, he was countless times stronger than Li Yan.

“This is a damaged formation. After entering the eye of the formation, there is no guarantee that one will not be affected. We cannot rely on the eye of the formation to kill the enemy.”

Li Yan, who was standing on another horizontal branch, was also looking at the three people who were getting further and further apart in the formation. And his answer made Tang Feng pause for a moment. He had not expected that the formation in Li Yan’s hands was just a damaged one.

Although Li Yan’s attainments in formations were not as good as Tang Feng’s, it was only not as good as his, not that he didn’t understand. So there were no flaws in his words.

Tang Feng frowned and thought to himself, “A grand formation whose eye cannot be used, then we cannot continue to stay here!”

But he still wanted to hear Li Yan’s own opinion, and his starry eyes looked at Li Yan!