Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

For today's battle, Guo Songtao didn't come; only Ying Xiong Hui was leading the team.

Seeing the stalemate on the stone platform, he called Lu Tianying over and transmitted his voice, "You talk a good game, but I haven't heard a peep from you all night!"

Lu Tianying replied helplessly, "Master, it's really not my fault. After returning to the camp yesterday, I couldn't find Real Person Yuan. I asked his disciples and followers, but they all said they didn't know. I tried to transmit my voice to him, but there was no response. Then I asked his disciple, Yuan Zhilin, who also said he couldn't be reached, speculating that he might have gone to a distant place and couldn't receive spirit jade transmissions for the time being."

"Gone to a distant place?" Ying Xiong Hui shook his head in confusion. "Where could he go at this time? And it's too coincidental that he disappeared just as the Jixia Academy's Libationer put pressure on the Chief Executive. Could he be deliberately avoiding us?"

Lu Tianying pondered for a moment and said with certainty, "This Real Person Yuan has always acted cautiously. He would never make a decision on his own regarding a matter concerning the survival of the sect. If he hasn't traveled far, then something unexpected must have happened, preventing him from responding to transmissions!"

Ying Xiong Hui glanced back at him, his eyes flashing with a soul-stirring light.

"Something unexpected? In this mountain? Unless a Deity Transformation expert made a move, who could silently trap a Nascent Soul cultivator!"

Lu Tianying spread his hands. "Then he must have gone to a distant place."

Ying Xiong Hui asked, "Besides your sect's camp, where else has Real Person Yuan been in the Hengduan Mountains?"

"I don't know. Hmm, Yuan Jing might know," Lu Tianying said.

"Then wait until this battle is over, and you go ask him!"

On the arena, the Derivation Complex Beast stood with its back to the array gate, its body facing Zhang Yuanjing, its slightly deflated abdomen trembling slightly.

Zhang Yuanjing simply watched with cold eyes, making no move.

The two faced off for another half an hour. The Derivation Complex Beast seemed to have made a decision. Suddenly, it deployed a sky full of sand again, erecting several earth walls in front of itself, and turned to dash into the gate.

At that moment, it suddenly felt a tremor beneath its feet, and its entire body flew into the air, crashing into the great array and rebounding toward the center of the arena.

It took a moment to glance at where it had been standing, and saw an additional earth pillar there. It was this object that had just burst out from beneath its feet, knocking it into the air.

This attack wasn't very powerful and didn't hurt it, but it completely thwarted its intention to enter the array gate.

Before it could land, another sand array rose from the ground, overlapping with the sand array it had created earlier. Layer upon layer of earth walls rose, dividing the arena space into fragmented sections.

The Derivation Complex Beast imitated Zhang Yuanjing, covering itself with stone armor for protection.

The sand array obscured divine sense, and it couldn't sense Zhang Yuanjing's precise location, relying only on its five senses to judge his approximate position. However, while moving in the air, it had memorized the exact location of the array gate, waiting to land and quickly rush back.

However, to its astonishment, when it landed on the stone platform, those earth walls began to shift back and forth, rising and falling, quickly obscuring its five senses. It could no longer find the location of the array gate.

Of course, it could also use replication and derivation methods, learning Zhang Yuanjing's techniques to create more earth walls and make the arena even more chaotic. However, that would be of no use to it in safely exiting the arena.

The Derivation Complex Beast stood still, waiting for a dozen breaths, and found that the sandstorm array had become denser, and the number of earth walls was still increasing, with their movements becoming more frequent. Such a display would consume a great deal of energy. Doubts arose in its heart, but it couldn't guess what Zhang Yuanjing was up to, and it couldn't help but feel a bit of fear.

As time passed, the changes in the earth walls became faster and more unpredictable, sometimes even crashing into it, sometimes forming earth prisons to trap it, and sometimes suddenly exploding, turning into streams of flying stones that shot in all directions. Of course, this still couldn't hurt it, but it made it even more confused, losing its judgment of the situation.

At one point, it suddenly felt a palpitation, as if danger was approaching. The surroundings were chaotic, making it impossible to detect the enemy's tracks.

Could it be that elusive knife? It thought of Zhang Yuanjing's Limitless Blade.

The Derivation Complex Beast wasn't known for its defense, but it was covered in stone armor, and with the sharpness of that knife, it wouldn't be enough to harm it.

Or that tower with nine rings hanging on it? When Zhang Yuanjing used the Nine Ring Tower to suppress the Lightning Leopard, although it was obscured by a dense sandstorm, the transformed great demon could still see it clearly, so it also knew about this extraordinary treasure.

It pondered for a moment, feeling that the sense of crisis was getting closer and closer, as if it was about to befall it, and could no longer endure it. Its whole body shook, and it released hundreds of vines.

These vines were also purple, but blackish-purple, glistening, thicker, and more resilient.

After these vines appeared, its abdomen became even flatter, similar to a wolf or fox.

As soon as the purple vines came out, the palpitating feeling immediately disappeared. The surrounding earth walls stopped moving erratically and all rushed toward it.

The Derivation Complex Beast twisted its body, and hundreds of purple vines lashed out, striking the rumbling earth walls.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The sound of earth walls breaking was endless, but the earth walls seemed endless, rushing repeatedly.

The Derivation Complex Beast couldn't see the scene in the distance, but it could see that after the earth walls shattered nearby, there weren't many remaining pieces of earth. It had originally suspected that these earth walls were just illusions, but after the purple vines hit the earth walls, it clearly felt that these earth walls might not be strong, but they were indeed real earth walls.

It knew that there must be profound mysteries hidden within, and if it didn't understand them, it couldn't replicate them. However, in its urgency, even though it was naturally good at comprehending Dao techniques, it couldn't understand the principles within.

In a dense cloud of yellow sand, Zhang Yuanjing walked leisurely. This cloud of yellow sand, which could be called sand, could also be called a thick earth wall. Using the Earth Separation Technique as a foundation, supplemented by the Solidification, Stone Driving, and Sand Rolling techniques, he drove this wall to move within the sand array, with other earth walls providing cover, so he didn't have to worry about being detected by the Derivation Complex Beast. He saw that this beast still wanted to retreat from the great array, so he had been hiding near the array gate.

If he wasn't worried about being spied on by Nascent Soul Real Persons and transformed great demons, he could even use Sky Obscuration to completely hide his tracks.

The Derivation Complex Beast didn't know how much magic power Zhang Yuanjing needed to maintain such a large-scale sand array and earth walls, nor did it know how long he could last. It only knew that if it continued like this, the Dao power it had accumulated for decades would soon be exhausted.

Zhang Yuanjing was naturally consuming a lot of energy, but he only needed to maintain an overall balance, and he could repeatedly use the condensed sand and earth to attack the Derivation Complex Beast continuously. In this way, apart from consuming a lot of magic power in the early stages of creating such a scene, maintaining it later didn't cost much. With the Source Stone replenishing him, he had no worries about magic power at all.

The Derivation Complex Beast held on for another short while, not daring to delay any longer. It gritted its teeth fiercely, and suddenly shook its body, which had shrunk a lot, cutting off all the purplish-black vines, and then forcefully pushed all the severed vines around it.

"Awoo--"

The Derivation Complex Beast roared, its voice piercing through the sand array, shaking the arena slightly. The vines that shot in all directions exploded in response.

"Rumble..."

Most of the sandstorm and earth walls were swept away by the powerful impact, and the arena was once again clearly visible.

The Derivation Complex Beast didn't see Zhang Yuanjing's figure, but it didn't have time to investigate where he was hiding. Its four legs exerted force, and it darted toward the array gate on the demon race's side.

Just as it was about to slip into the gate, a broken and tattered earth wall suddenly moved sideways from the side, blocking its path.

The Derivation Complex Beast was caught off guard and crashed directly into the earth wall.