Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

"Junior Brother Chen" retrieved a black cloth bag from under his cloak. The other four took several steps back in unison, clearing several yards around the cave entrance.

"Junior Brother Chen" chuckled, untied a thin rope fastening the black cloth bag, grabbed the bottom of the bag, and shook it downwards. A rustling sound was heard, and a wriggling, black mass appeared on the ground. The others retreated a few more steps.

"My little darlings, go, go find that fragrant delicacy!" "Junior Brother Chen" seemed crazed, gesticulating wildly and uttering strange cries.

The black mass on the ground began to flow forward, and before long, it had all disappeared into the cave, leaving no trace. "Junior Brother Chen" was still shaking in place, muttering incantations.

After a quarter of an hour, "Junior Brother Chen" suddenly fell silent and frowned. "This kid has set up a maze formation inside. My Corrosive Spirit Worms can't get through."

The others were speechless upon hearing this.

A maze formation is a type of trap formation set up by cultivators to prevent disturbances from mortals and vermin. Ordinary living creatures that enter it will be trapped for half a day or a day before automatically finding their way out. If there were hostile cultivators present, a casual attack could destroy the formation.

However, the Corrosive Spirit Worms, which had not yet developed intelligence, only knew to follow their instincts and devour living creatures with spiritual power. They would not attack an invisible and intangible formation.

"It seems we still need someone to go in. Otherwise, if we let him meditate like this, he'll hide for several more days after he recovers." "Senior Brother Guo" said, glancing at the others.

The others understood his meaning and remained silent for a moment.

After a while, "Junior Brother Chen" spoke, "Since I've already made a move, I'll go in to direct my Corrosive Spirit Worms from close range. However, to prevent that kid from playing dirty tricks, someone needs to follow behind me, so they can help me out in case the cave collapses."

"Junior Brother Xu, you go. Among us, you are the best at close combat!" "Senior Brother Guo" continued "Junior Brother Chen's" words and called out the hunchbacked old man's name.

The hunchbacked old man reluctantly agreed, but grumbled in his heart, "Good at close combat, what does that have to do with digging dirt!"

"Junior Brother Chen" and "Junior Brother Xu" bent over and entered the cave. The two advanced slowly, one in front of the other, separated by about six or seven yards.

When the Scaled Rats built the cave, they built the first fifty or so yards of the tunnel in a complex, winding manner with many passages to guard against the serpent-like demon beasts, their natural enemies. They also inserted collected fangs, poisonous spines, and sharp blades into the walls or ground at the bends. Larger creatures traveling inside would not only easily get lost, but also be in extreme danger.

The two proceeded cautiously, taking nearly half an hour to enter the final twenty-yard passage. The cave entrance here was significantly smaller, and people could only enter by curling up or crawling.

"Junior Brother Chen, I'll wait for you here. If I go any further into this section of the cave, I won't be able to dig you out if it collapses. There's simply no room to maneuver here!"

"Junior Brother Xu" felt afraid at the sight of the cave entrance and refused to go any further, transmitting his voice to "Junior Brother Chen" ahead.

"Junior Brother Chen" moved four or five yards inward, and upon hearing this, he also refused to go any further. He summoned a green staff and controlled it to fly slowly inward. Although he didn't know the specific location of the maze formation, he could sense the general location of the Corrosive Spirit Worms, and the staff was aimed in that direction.

"Bang!" A soft sound came from ahead. The green staff had broken something, and his Corrosive Spirit Worms began to rush forward happily again.

"Junior Brother Chen" retrieved the green staff. By now, the signal from the Corrosive Spirit Worms had also arrived—they had lost their target!

"Lost their target? What does that mean? Could it be that they've hidden in the soil again?" "Junior Brother Chen's" senses were limited in the cave. He tried to probe deeper into the cave, but found no fluctuations of a cultivator's spiritual power. He prepared to transmit his voice to "Senior Brother Guo" outside to ask for advice.

At this moment, "Senior Brother Guo's" voice came first: "You come out first, leave the worms inside to prevent that kid from playing hide-and-seek with us."

"Junior Brother Chen" shook his head helplessly. He muttered strange words, telling the Corrosive Spirit Worms to scatter and be vigilant. Then, he squeezed against the cave wall, twisting his body to turn around.

Just as he turned around, an arm suddenly stretched out from the soil above and behind him, holding a large axe, and chopped straight at his head.

"Junior Brother Chen" was terrified, his hair standing on end. He tried his best to lunge forward. However, the space in the cave was too small. Although his head shot forward two inches, his back was right under the axe and was chopped in half.

"Junior Brother Chen" screamed and then fell silent. The ugly and terrifying little worms deep in the cave all exploded and died, and a stench instantly filled the air.

"Junior Brother Xu," who was waiting for "Junior Brother Chen" to come out, suddenly heard a scream and shuddered. He subconsciously shouted into the cave, "Junior Brother Chen, Junior Brother Chen, what's wrong with you!"

He shouted a few times, but received no response. He immediately turned around, bent over, and ran out. The sound of footsteps echoed in the cave, as if someone was chasing closely behind. "Junior Brother Xu" knew it was just an echo, but couldn't suppress the fear in his heart. He didn't look back, only hoping to get out of this cramped cave as soon as possible.

"Pfft," a long cut was torn into his left rib by a sharp thorn on the cave wall, and blood flowed freely. He grunted, but didn't have time to check it. He just ran frantically.

"Junior Brother Xu, calm down! Calm down! Don't rush, don't run around, you're going the wrong way! Quickly use the Vajra Talisman and be careful!"

"Senior Brother Guo" clearly "saw" "Junior Brother Xu's" actions with his divine sense. He couldn't help but curse him as a waste and repeatedly reminded him.

However, "Junior Brother Xu" couldn't calm down at this time. The dark, narrow cave tightly bound his senses, making him like a blind man, facing dangers he couldn't see. How could he not be afraid?

"Be careful, that person has appeared in front of you!" "Senior Brother Guo" suddenly shouted, his voice urgent and showing some shrillness.

"Junior Brother Xu's" heart skipped a beat. The experience he had accumulated over the years of fighting allowed him to react quickly. He took out a Vajra Talisman with one hand and slapped it on his chest. With the other hand, he summoned his strongest spiritual weapon, the "Mother-Child Crutches." The mother crutch defended in front, and the child crutch hid behind to wait for an opportunity.

In the darkness, a "whooshing" sound came from ahead. A heavy object was coming through the air, powerful and heavy. "Junior Brother Xu" poured out his mana and pushed the mother crutch forward with a "hey!"

With a "clang," the mother crutch collided with the flying object and bounced back. "Junior Brother Xu" could neither dodge nor retreat, so he could only push the child crutch forward, colliding it with the rebounding mother crutch. The force of the mother crutch was dissipated, but the child crutch hit his chest. Blocked by the Vajra Talisman, he was not injured.

He had just taken a breath when the wind picked up again, and the heavy object attacked again, with no less momentum than before. "Junior Brother Xu" had no choice but to repeat the same head-on defense as last time.

After two breaths, the third attack arrived. "Junior Brother Xu" could not advance or retreat, and did not know how many impacts the Vajra Talisman could withstand, so he quickly called "Senior Brother Guo" for help.

The other two did not know what was happening inside. They only saw "Senior Brother Guo" constantly transmitting messages with an urgent expression, so they knew that the two who had entered the cave must be in danger.

"Junior Brother Jin, Junior Brother Lu, you two wait here, I'll go in and save them." "Senior Brother Guo" briefly weighed the situation and felt that "Junior Brother Xu" could still hold on. With his delay, it was actually an opportunity to catch the enemy.

Now that the opponent had shown himself, "Senior Brother Guo" did not need to be careful to guard against a surprise attack, and he moved very quickly in the cave.

Zhang Yuanjing did not know that "Senior Brother Guo" had entered the cave, and even if he did, he would not care. Because, while he was attacking "Junior Brother Xu," he had already set a trap behind him.

He controlled the Profound Crystal Axe, hacking at "Junior Brother Xu" with one axe after another. In this terrain, the advantages of the Profound Crystal Axe were displayed to the extreme, beating "Junior Brother Xu," who had always been good at head-on confrontations, until his legs trembled and cold sweat poured down.

Zhang Yuanjing's mana was more powerful and his spiritual weapon was more fierce than his. If he hadn't known that "Senior Brother Guo" was rushing over, he would have been unable to hold on.

The closer "Senior Brother Guo" got to the battlefield, the clearer his divine sense became to the two. He had clearly "seen" Zhang Yuanjing's figure, in a fork in the road on the left ahead. Victory was in sight, he held a black curved knife in his hand, ready to strike the moment he turned into the fork.

At the bend, just as "Senior Brother Guo" was about to cast a spell, he heard a "boom." This section of the cave suddenly collapsed, and the solid mountain above sank down, instantly crushing him underneath. "Senior Brother Guo" mustered all his mana, but could only barely resist the enormous earth pressure from the surrounding area, struggling to survive, unable to move at all.

The loud noise startled "Junior Brother Xu," who was struggling to hold on. Although he couldn't see what was happening over there, he knew that something must have gone wrong.

"Senior Brother Guo, Senior Brother Guo..." he shouted, his voice echoing in the cave.

"Stop shouting, he can't come! Prepare to die!" Zhang Yuanjing shouted and swung another axe.

"Junior Brother Xu" resisted again, but his mana was already exhausted. Both the mother and child crutches were knocked back, hitting his chest. He took two steps back and sat down on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood. The momentum of the Profound Crystal Axe did not diminish, and it flew after the Mother-Child Crutches, splitting his head in half.

Although "Senior Brother Guo's" body could not move, his divine sense was unaffected. He clearly saw Zhang Yuanjing killing "Junior Brother Xu," and he couldn't help but feel chills. A desire to survive arose out of thin air, and he concentrated his mana on his right hand holding the curved knife, and waved it vigorously, pushing the soil to both sides. However, it was all in vain. No matter how hard he tried, the soil in front of his head was not reduced in the slightest.

Previously, Zhang Yuanjing was worried that there would not be enough collapsed earth and stone to trap a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so he buried five low-grade, low-quality Flame Explosion Talismans above. When they exploded, they completely collapsed a large section of the mountain seven or eight yards thick. With such a huge amount of earth pressing down, even if "Senior Brother Guo" had the cultivation of the late Foundation Establishment stage, he would be powerless to turn the tide.

He was unwilling to give up and continued to dig the soil. His divine sense was fixed on Zhang Yuanjing. After Zhang Yuanjing killed "Junior Brother Xu," he did not move, but sat down on the spot to recover his exhausted mana.

This gave "Senior Brother Guo" hope. He transmitted his voice to the two junior brothers outside while digging the soil with force. His body could not withstand the pressure of the soil for a long time, he needed a space to breathe.

When the cave collapsed, the two outside also heard a slight noise. When "Senior Brother Guo" transmitted his voice, they realized that the situation they had feared before had indeed happened. The two looked at each other. An ordinary Scaled Rat cave had already buried three companions, did they still want to go in?

"Senior Brother Lu, what do you say?"

"Alas, I'm a little confused. Junior Brother Jin, what do you think?"

"I can't make up my mind either. Let's listen to the senior brother."

The two were verbose here, and "Senior Brother Guo" was already weak. The sound of several transmissions became smaller and smaller, showing that he could no longer support it.

The green-robed middle-aged man spread his hands: "Junior Brother Jin, Senior Brother Guo is about to die, we can't make it in time to save him."

"Junior Brother Jin" said sadly: "Alas, three senior brothers have died, how can we explain it when we go back!"

The green-robed middle-aged man said hatefully: "That person doesn't have any real skills, but relies on a spiritual weapon that can dive into the earth, and then uses treacherous schemes to succeed. Junior Brother Jin, let's guard here and see if that person will come out and fight us openly. As long as he dares to come out, we will join forces to take him down and take him back to report. If he sneaks away, we don't have spirit-seeking beasts, so naturally we can't do anything about him. Do you think this is feasible?"

"Junior Brother Jin" nodded: "Then let's do as Senior Brother says!"