384 Fiercely Fighting the Tentacle Monster (1/2)

As a professional, when exploring in the Immortal Dream Land, Wang Lu was more inclined to take the initiative.

When he found the wandering Daoist Priest's trail in Yunyang Palace, although there was no further clues, Wang Lu quickly found out that person's origin.

Since he had understood the intention behind all of this was to induce King Yunyang to become a tyrant, then by inferring in reverse, at this point the person behind all of this should be in the palace, and from only a few places...

And from these few places, the royal tomb was undoubtedly the first choice. The dozens of generations of the kings of Cloud Country were buried here, guarding the prosperous and beautiful country after death. And the ancient monument that symbolized the glory of Cloud Country stood erect in front of the royal tomb. Once the country changed, it was the first to bear the brunt.

Wang Lu rushed to the royal tomb and found out that a change has already happened. The soldiers guarding the area were obviously affected by a spell. Their faces were pale and stiff; without exception, they kept the inflexible appearance.

In fact, as the army guarding the royal tomb, they were the finest elite of the kingdom, determined, loyal, fully aware of what they were responsible for, and when they arrived here, they have already regarded themselves as a dead person. At the same time, living near the royal tomb for long periods of time inevitably caused these soldiers to become infected with a bit of cadaverous aura.

Such troops were the most stable and most frightening. Even the team sent by King Yunyang to slaughter people could not be compared with the troops guarding the mausoleum. However, in the eyes of cultivators, the combat strength of ordinary mortals was immaterial. The more important thing was, these troops were simply the best material for the corpse soldiers.

With Wang Lu's eyesight, he was able to clearly see that they have been under a brilliant spell. Although the traces of the spell's effects were intentionally hidden, they could not be hidden from Wang Lu's eyes. At this time, these soldiers were still alive and have not been converted into corpse soldiers, however, it was highly likely that this status would not last long. Right now, they were already in a critical state, as long as the spell caster applied a password, they could rapidly complete their transformation.

And through this, he could also see that the wandering Daoist Priest has basically completed all the preparatory work. It could be said that he was only waiting for the right opportunity. Were it not for Wang Lu who stumbled here, the collapse of the Cloud Country could happen in a single night.

And by this point, the other party was certainly unable to reconcile to this. Therefore, even if that person knew that he was a disciple of a prestigious sect, that person would not back down and instead would fight tooth and nail.

Sure enough, when Wang Lu really stepped into the boundary of the royal tomb, a sorrowful Yin voice sounded in his ear.

”I knew a disciple from a prestigious sect like you is very much fond of showing off. You think that since you have a profound cultivation base and magical treasure as a protection, you can go anywhere unhindered. And you especially like slaying demons, as if the world's evil sects and devil cultivators were just fish on the chopping block, completely at your mercy.”

That voice was erratic, coming from left but suddenly appeared on the right. However, the malice from the tone of the voice was overflowing like a surging tide.

”But you don't know that in our eyes, that isn't really it? When I first began to cultivate, I heard enough of the story of an evil genius who slaughtered righteous idiots like you. In fact, over the years, the upright path cultivators who died in our hands were countless. Twenty years ago, I personally captured a female cultivator who just entered the Jindan Stage but didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth. Can you guess how I concocted her?”

Originally, Wang Lu couldn't care less for this ghostly voice, but when he heard the last part, he could not help but laugh, ”An idiot who displays his meager skill before an expert, do you know who you are showing off your tiny skill to?”

With that, he finally locked the opponent's position. The Sword of Mount Kun flew out. Although the power was not big, it flew as fast as lightning toward the tallest structure at the royal tomb, which was the ancient monument of Cloud Country.

The ancient monument of Cloud Country was the country treasure. Its majesty was even higher than the current king of Cloud Country. Any person could not subject it to any blasphemy. However, at this time, a person in black clothing and stooped stature was actually standing on the ancient monument, not in the least bit respectful.

In the face of the flying sword attack, he let out a strange laugh and released a ball of fire wisp with a wave of his hand toward the Sword of Mount Kun.

That fire wisp was a malicious demonic fire that he refined by chance coincidence. It was full of corrosive Yin energy. For a person's body, it would be like a highly toxic pus. For magical treasures, it could pollute its power, greatly damaging that magical treasure. This fire wisp was a very effective tool employed by devil cultivators against upright path cultivators. Twenty years ago, he managed to capture an upright path female cultivator because her magical treasure was was polluted by the fire wisp, and thus carelessly defeated.

And this evil cultivator—seeing that Wang Lu's magical treasure was formidable, though he didn't know that it has reached the level of spiritual treasure and how it was only sent flying straight at him without changing its path at all—thought that it was just a simple target.

In fact, Wang Lu's ability to hurt his opponent was not strong. With his cultivation base of Peak Xudan Stage, in fact, he could barely control the smooth flight of the flying sword, which was completely without any lethality compared to others with the same cultivation base as him.

However, Wang Lu also needed not bother to control the flying sword. The Sword of Mount Kun belonged to spiritual treasure level weapon. The sword spirit Autumn Beam has been painstakingly cultivating for more than a thousand years. In the ancient sword tomb, she managed to have an opportunity to breakthrough the bottleneck. Right now, even if she acted independently without her master's control, she could still let out a very strong action force. Seeing the several balls of malicious demonic fires before her, she directly turned sideway and continued to rush toward that black clad evil cultivator.

That evil cultivator was surprised. When he released the several balls of fire wisp, it seemed like he sent them in a hurry, but it was actually carefully calculated by him; they could perfectly block the flying path of the flying sword. However, the flying sword steered away. It was very flexible and incredibly quick. It directly drew several arcs as it flew to bypass those fire wisps and then threw itself at him!