Chapter 153: Two Battlefields (1/2)

After Jiang Li finished setting up the array formation, he filled the soil cubes back into the hole seamlessly.

In the end, only a few traces were left on the surface of the grass. With the urging of his wood attribute spiritual qi, the vegetation grew densely and soon, no one could see any abnormalities.

However, his actions were seen by several pairs of eyes.

”Little brother, your artifact is not bad. If you give it to me, I will protect you until the end. How about it?”

Jiang Li carried the shovel and stood up. This voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Jiang Li was expressionless and did not show any surprise. The other party had been following him for so long. If he did not discover this, then his cultivation of the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra would have been for nothing.

He had ignored the other party previously because he was certain that the other party would not be able to escape.

Turning around, he saw a woman in red floating on a tree branch. She had a smile on her face as she looked down at him.

Then, rustling sounds could be heard. Two male rogue cultivators who were close to twenty years old surrounded him from two other directions.

”It seems that rogue cultivators are not all fools. They actually reached a cooperation in such a short time. It really surprised me. You guys are not bad.”

Jiang Li was surrounded by the three of them, but his expression clearly showed that he was surrounded by the three of them. He was praising them like an elder facing a junior.

”Little brother, your words don't sound nice. Those two big brothers will be very angry. Why don't you take out everything you have and Big Sister will help you plead for leniency?”

The woman narrowed her eyes before she started to threaten Jiang Li. The two people behind him were slowly approaching as well, but they maintained a distance between them. Obviously, they did not really trust each other and were still on guard against their teammates.

”Are you planning to attack me? Have you thought of the consequences of attacking a disciple of the Scripture Storage Valley?”

Jiang Li touched the chain on his waist, as if he was comforting a python, asking it to endure for a while and not kill everyone on the spot.

”Heh, boy, you still want to use the sect to suppress us?”

”This is the venue of the Great Mountain Cultivator Competition. No one will say anything even if I kill you.”

”See the fog above? If you die, who will know that we killed you?”

When Jiang Li heard this, he inexplicably admired the other party's courage.

”These large sects are really rotten. They actually let a young master like you join this kind of competition by paying them a sum. Hmph, it's a pity that you met us.”

”Hand over everything quickly, or else I'll definitely let you see what horror is!”

Behind him, there was a man whose malice was no longer masked. He tore the sleeve on his right arm, revealing a gorgeous tiger claw.

This kind of operation of directly transplanting the organs of demon beasts was actually quite popular among the rogue cultivators. Although it might affect their future development potential, it could increase their combat strength quite a bit in a short period of time.

Jiang Li touched his young face and felt a little helpless.

Ever since his body refinement, his body had grown rapidly, but the immaturity had not completely faded.

His age was really too deceptive. Cultivation required a long period of accumulation. To many people, being young meant being weak.

Even if he wore the uniform of an inner sect disciple of the Scripture Storage Valley, few people would acknowledge his strength.

If one did not know the truth, it was not strange to think this way.

”Forget it, I'm not playing with you guys anymore. Miss Shuman, have you chosen your target yet?”

Jiang Li raised his head and asked before a phantom appeared behind the red clothed woman.

Qin Shuman grabbed her head and covered her eyes with her hands. The woman in red instantly lost all her senses and could not move at all.

This was a sensory deprivation technique. After combining it with the Shu Mountain's illusion technique, its power was already extremely terrifying.

Furthermore, with Qin Shuman's strength, although it was likely for her to lose against a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it was not a problem to face a Qi Refinement cultivator.

Then, Qin Shuman forced the other party's head in front of her. Her pale lips opened slightly, and mist-like things poured out from the other party's air hole.

She had used her ghostly innate ability to quickly draw out the other party's spiritual qi and vitality.

”Kid! You're courting death!”

The female cultivator above was instantly subdued. The two cultivators panicked as well. That female ghost looked extremely terrifying. The two of them combined were definitely not her match.

He did not expect that this sect disciple who joined through connections would actually have such a cheat-level protective trump card. No wonder he was so fearless just now.

”To capture thieves, first take down the leader! Attack together!”

The female ghost, Qin Shuman, was treated as a protective trump card given to him by the elders of the sect.

The two rogue cultivators knew that fleeing would only mean death. Their only way out was to capture Jiang Li and use him as a hostage.

They rushed forward together, one tiger claw reaching towards Jiang Li's face, and a sickle aimed at his ankle.

The two of them attacked together, and their cooperation had some tacit understanding.

Bang! Bang!

With a punch from the top, the tiger claw was smashed into a pile of mush. With a kick from the bottom, the iron hook was kicked into a pile of scrap metal.

The attacks that the two of them relied on were easily shattered, showing no effect.

Swoosh!

The Dragon Imprisoning Lock that had been waiting for a long time flew out and wrapped around the two people at lightning speed. Then, it suddenly tightened, and a huge force squeezed inward, instantly tearing the two people into pieces on the ground.

Without any special methods, it was basically impossible for these Qi Refinement realm cultivators to endure an attack from Jiang Li.

”Shuman, let's go.”

Jiang Li threw the corpse into the coffin. The master of the Ghost City, Qin Shuman, also floated over with the female cultivator who had already turned into a dried corpse.

After absorbing the vitality of a late-stage Qi Refinement realm cultivator, her pale body now had a hint of redness.

The human and ghost continued to walk towards the finish line as if they were sightseeing.

Similar things were happening in the other areas of the Qi Refinement realm's competition.

There were more rogue cultivators, but other than a few true geniuses who were hidden until now and some children of heaven who had obtained the powerful legacies of their predecessors, the strength of these rogue cultivators was generally inferior to sect cultivators.

From the ranks of cultivation methods, the might of spell techniques, and the grade of magic artifacts, when these differences were overlapped, the difference in combat strength would at least be raised by two levels.

Many rogue cultivators knew their own limits. After encountering each other, they felt that they did not have full confidence in taking down the other party, so they temporarily traveled together and formed groups of three or five in order to fight against stronger sect cultivators.

However, even so, they still lost more than they won.

Apart from… this group of people.

If the fog above the mountain disappeared, the flying ship in the sky might discover that a wave of seemingly unrelated cultivators was gathering in the center of the first mountain from all directions.

There were men and women among them, and there were both strong and weak. The places in the Great Mountain Region were vastly different, and perhaps they could not even call each other's names.

But as if summoned by something, they converged on one target.

After they gathered, they did not have any intention of fighting. They only quietly waited for their companions to arrive.

Before long, more than 30 rogue cultivators had gathered.

After all, the Qi Refinement realm was only the beginning of cultivation. The things that cultivators grasped were still too few. It was quite difficult to fight ten people at once.

As for more than 30 Qi Refinement cultivators, this force was already sufficient to suppress any sect disciple other than Jiang Li.