Loach Dragon Fire Path entrance, in the boundless Magma Lake.
Gurgling…
It resembled boiled, swollen dumplings as one by one, the fiery black-red turtle shell Water Avoiding Shuttles flipped up from the bottom of the Magma Lake.
They swayed back and forth for quite a while before gradually stabilizing.
“What’s going on?”
Inside the secret chamber of the Ping Ning Water Avoiding Shuttle, Lei Hong steadied his shaking form, his face filled with panic.
“Is the Sect Master indeed problematic?” Lei Cheng had already recovered, his facial expression dark.
“That black membrane-like bizarre barrier isn’t mentioned at all in the ‘Loach Dragon Fire Path Annotation,'” Chen Mu’s complexion was equally grim.
The two Vermilion Feathers Swords swam like fish through the scorching magma.
Using the Truth Listening Divine Power, it didn’t take long for him to identify all the Water Avoiding Shuttles.
Those Water Avoiding Shuttles that hadn’t erased their cold qi were all gone.
“It’s over!”
Chen Mu had previously speculated that Qiu Jinwu might have ill intentions, and now it had been confirmed. Even though he was prepared, he couldn’t help but be startled.
This was a Great Cultivator with Dao Foundation Perfection!
“What should we do…” Lei Hong was terrified.
“Go!” Chen Mu made the decision immediately.
Sect Master Qiu Jinwu had unknown schemes. While the complete picture was unclear, those schemes were definitely no good!
To sabotage the opposition’s secret plans and temporarily escape from their control, if not now, then when?
“Hurry up and flee!”
Lei Cheng did not utter a word, but his mana started surging wildly.
The Kui Niu Drum thudded dully, clearly being pushed to its limit.
All of a sudden, the Ping Ning Water Avoiding Shuttle raised its bead, and its enormous body, like a fish leaving water, leapt forcefully into the air.
Upon reaching the highest point, it then turned and plummeted, diving with a splash into the Magma Lake and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
…
Atop the Five Clouds, Lei Wen, who was checking the situation, was stunned by the maneuver of the Ping Ning.
“Uncle Two, Uncle Three?”
“Rushing into the Magma Lake, it seemed like they were fleeing. Is there some unknown danger here?”
With a sense of alarm and uncertainty, he looked around and immediately noticed that the Water Avoiding Shuttle containing their family elder had mysteriously vanished.
Instinctively feeling something was wrong, he immediately flipped into a Water Avoiding Shuttle, mimicking the Ping Ning’s operation, and steered the shuttle deep into the Magma Lake.
“Could Uncle Two and Uncle Three know something?” Lei Wen felt uneasy.
He suddenly remembered something. Just the day before yesterday, Uncle Three Lei Hong had come to the Five Clouds to trade for herbs.
Upon leaving, however, he had handed him a copy of the complete ‘Loach Dragon Fire Path Annotation,’ which contained all the routes of Loach Dragon Fire Path.
But the Goose Sheep Path fleet was interconnected; there should be no need for them to identify the Fire Path routes themselves.
Unless they were to sail independently away from the fleet, they wouldn’t need the ‘Loach Dragon Fire Path Annotation.’
“Could the Goose Sheep Path fleet really be disbanding?”
“Is it a situation similar to the last monster attack?”
With lightning-fast thoughts, Lei Wen’s eyelids twitched incessantly.
Before he could figure it out.
Boom!
A violent tremor suddenly occurred in the Magma Lake, and the Five Clouds, as if drunk, swayed unsteadily to and fro.
Lei Wen’s demeanor changed immediately as he increased his mana and rapidly controlled the Water Avoiding Shuttle to descend.
…
At this moment, the originally calm Magma Lake abruptly started boiling and surging like towering waves.
The numerous large Water Avoiding Shuttles, like small boats, helplessly swayed with the rising and falling magma.
The next moment.
With a booming thunder, a gigantic five-fingered dragon claw burst out from within the magma waves.
A Water Avoiding Shuttle, as large as a football field, was grasped in the palm of the claw like a walnut.
With a gentle flick, the Water Avoiding Shuttle whooshed, spinning into the air.
Suddenly, a vortex-shaped black cloud had established itself mid-air.
The edges of the vortex roiled and churned while the center resembled a constantly fluctuating water screen, pitch black, revealing nothing.
The Water Avoiding Shuttle thrown into the air was like a basketball thrown into a net, whooshing into the black hole and vanishing without a trace.
At some point, dressed in a gold-threaded purple robe, his eyes flashing with lightning, Qiu Jinwu appeared mid-air.
In comparison to the enormous Water Avoiding Shuttles and the dragon claw, he appeared minuscule like a sesame seed.
But it was this small figure that easily stirred the fiery, enormous Magma Lake.
He stared indifferently at the large and small turtle shells, ignoring the panic and cries emanating from inside. His eyes flashing with intense lightning, they shone like bright lamps.
Boom, boom, boom…
Numerous Magma Dragon Claws suddenly shot out. Regardless of whether the Water Avoiding Shuttles were stationary or fleeing, they were all grasped by the Magma Dragon Claws and thrown into the black hole in mid-air.
Tens of miles away, Chen Mu, who was using the Vermilion Feather Swords to employ the Truth Listening Divine Power, was suddenly startled by the grand spectacle.
“Returning so quickly? To personally take action?”
“Qiu Jinwu isn’t even hiding it anymore!”
Mountain-Carrying Scripture!
Thousands of Ghosts flew out of the Five Ghosts Bag, coalescing into rolling black smoke that formed a gigantic invisible hand driven by immense divine power, which suddenly struck at the rear of the Water Avoiding Shuttle.
It was like a bamboo pole propelling a boat; the already swiftly diving Water Avoiding Shuttle was suddenly thrust forward at an even greater speed.
At the same time, a gray fog encircled the Water Avoiding Shuttle.
The Yin Wind Escape Technique of the Mountain-Carrying Scripture was being fully activated!
Run, run, run!
Not a moment to spare!
Chen Mu exerted all his strength to accelerate the Water Avoiding Shuttle, causing his face to redden and veins to bulge prominently on his neck.
…
An Hour later.
At the entrance of the Loach Dragon Fire Path, Magma Lake.
The raging magma tide had subsided, but the air had become even hotter and drier.
Standing as if on flat ground, Qiu Jinwu was surrounded by unobtrusive Spiritual Light, floating mid-air without support.
At that moment, his exposed skin on his face and the back of his hands was covered in numerous fine cracks, looking terrifyingly like shattered yet intact porcelain.
Hiss, hiss, hiss…
Accompanied by a sound like water squirting from a burst hose, fresh red Blood Beads dotted with pale golden specks seeped from the cracked porcelain-like textures.
“Forcing the activation of the Dragon Ball, sacrificing years of cultivation in an instant, you’re really willing to go all out,” a vertical pupil-shaped black hole silently emerged beside Qiu Jinwu, clicking its tongue.
“Is the sacrifice enough?” Qiu Jinwu asked hoarsely, unmoved.
“Nearly one-seventh of all Qi Cultivators in Yunzhou have been sent to the Tianhe Law Realm by you, how could it not be enough!” The fire inside the black hole flickered.
“How many escaped?”
“Maybe twenty or thirty ships. Why, do you want to completely annihilate them?” The voice inside the vertical pupil black hole sounded surprised.
“I’m not talking about whether the sacrifices are enough for you to summon another half of the Loach Dragon Dragon Ball.”
“I’m talking about yourself.”
“Those few blows just now must have damaged your Daoist Foundation, right?”
“Instead of hurriedly refining the Dragon Ball to nourish your foundation, you still want to pursue and act? Don’t you care if you live or die?”
Qiu Jinwu’s eyes shifted slightly as he glanced sideways at the vertical pupil-shaped black hole.
“Are you worried about whether I want to live or die?”
“It seems that opening the gateway just now also cost you a lot.”
“Then, I am relieved,” Qiu Jinwu chuckled.
The flames inside the vertical pupil-shaped black hole suddenly flared violently.
“Heh…”
He looked back at the now calm Magma Lake.
“Consider it leaving a trace of life for the Goose Sheep Path.”
“You’re lucky…”
…
Two days later.
Deep underground, the Ping Ning Water Avoiding Shuttle glowed dark red, quietly drifting along a magma river.
Crouching on top of the Water Avoiding Shuttle, surrounded by the Five Dragons Qi, Chen Mu inserted an Extinguishing Breath Stone the size of a fist into the turtle shell, then straightened up. Looking around at the scarlet magma river occasionally burbling sounds, he felt slightly relieved.
After two days and nights of non-stop, rapid sailing, the Ping Ning Water Avoiding Shuttle had completely distanced itself from the entrance of the Loach Dragon Fire Path, successfully evading the upheaval stirred up by Qiu Jinwu.
“Lucky that we discovered it in time and reacted quickly.”
“The Truthful Listening Technique played a major role.”
Recalling the scenes he saw that day, Chen Mu was still frightened.
If Qiu Jinwu had caught them and thrown them into that black hole, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
“Qiu Jinwu, a Qi Cultivator with a Perfected Daoist Foundation, was actually in league with the people of the Lock Dragon Courtyard?”
“Tch… the vast world is full of wonders.”
Although that vortex black hole was somewhat strange, its aura was clearly a variant of the Netherworld Ferry.
At this time and place, the only ones capable of wielding Netherworld Mystique similar to the Netherworld would be those Lock Dragon Knights from Da Qian who practiced the Ghost Channeling Technique.
“What kind of benefit could make Qiu Jinwu sell out his entire sect?”
“Is it some secret technique or artifact that could help him cultivate his Primordial Spirit?”
Chen Mu gained some insight.
Qiu Jinwu is a Qi Cultivator with a Perfected Daoist Foundation who betrayed his sect, probably still for the sake of his future path.
But to suddenly ruin the entire Goose Sheep Path, along with those affiliated families and sects lost on the way…
“This Sect Master Qiu really has a ruthless heart!”
Chen Mu shook his head, his figure flickered, and he changed positions to continue installing the Extinguishing Breath Stone on the Water Avoiding Shuttle.
“Fortunately, the Loach Dragon Fire Path is vast and as complex as a maze, not just one path leading to Hai Province.”
“If there were only one path, it would be troublesome if Qiu Jinwu managed to catch up by following the route.”
“Just to be safe, we should still finish setting up the Extinguishing Breath Stone as soon as possible.”
Previously while traveling at the bottom of the Tongtian River, he frequently encountered undercurrents.
But after he used the Extinguishing Breath Stone to conceal the Water Avoiding Shuttle, those undercurrents never appeared again.
Now Chen Mu understood that it was also mostly the Lock Dragon Courtyard’s doing.
For safety’s sake, he decided it was best to first mask the aura of the Water Avoiding Shuttle.
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