The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 906 Unlucky Li Ke

Southern Continent, Sacred Flame Island, Sacred Flame Realm, Dragon Soul Abyss.

An hour later, Nangong Tian flew out of the well with a calm expression.

The attendant, Senior Brother Qu, rushed forward, his face full of concern, and asked, "Young Master, are you alright?"

Nangong Tian said calmly, "What could possibly happen? A dragon soul that has exhausted its soul power, how could it pose a threat to me?"

Judging from Nangong Tian's tone, Senior Brother Qu knew that Nangong Tian was in a bad mood.

Nangong Tian chased the dragon soul in the abyss for more than an hour, but finally lost all trace of it at a fork in the abyss and had to turn back.

However, on the way back, Nangong Tian picked three Dragon Soul Grasses, so the trip wasn't in vain.

Nangong Tian scanned his surroundings with his divine sense and noticed that many people were missing. He asked in confusion, "Where are they?"

There are now only a little over a thousand cultivators left here who are missing limbs; not a single intact cultivator remains.

Nangong Tian remembered that when he chased after them, there should still be more than a thousand uninjured cultivators here.

Knowing he couldn't hide it any longer, Senior Brother Qu said in a panic, "They...they've all gone out to chase after them..."

Nangong Tian frowned, and Senior Brother Qu quickly recounted what had happened after he left.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Tian chuckled and said, "Good lad, you actually dare to use us Southern Continent cultivators to steal my things, you have guts!"

Nangong Tian only said these words subconsciously. Senior Brother Qu thought that Nangong Tian was laughing in anger, so he knelt down trembling and said, "It was because I failed to keep a close watch that the thief took advantage of the situation. Please punish me, Young Master!"

Nangong Tian put away his smile and said calmly, "Get up. I didn't mean to blame you. If that kid wanted to take it, you couldn't stop him."

Senior Brother Qu remained kneeling, not daring to move. Nangong Tianxin said with displeasure, "What? Don't you understand what I'm saying?!"

Senior Brother Qu hurriedly stood up and said, "No, no."

Nangong Tian said calmly, "Send a message to them that they don't need to chase anymore, and to come back. We still have a long way to go."

Senior Brother Qu dared not ask and hurriedly sent a message back to the cultivators who had gone to chase after Pan Chengfeng.

Half an hour later, the cultivators returned, and there were some more people in the group.

A beautiful figure flew out from the crowd and landed directly next to Nangong Tian. She said in a sweet voice, "My lord, you must avenge me~~" As she spoke, she began to sob.

Feeling the elasticity in his arm, Nangong Tian steadied himself and said, "Miaomiao, there are so many people here, don't do this."

Nangong Tian tried to pull his arm away, but Su Miaomiao held him tightly; how could he possibly let her go?

Su Miaomiao took Nangong Tian's arm with one hand, wiped away two tears, and said, "What are you afraid of? We're already officially married, why should we be afraid of gossip?"

As she spoke, she wanted to give Nangong Tian a big hug.

Nangong Tian flashed away from Su Miaomiao's entanglement, his handsome face slightly flushed as he asked, "Miaomiao, what's wrong? I feel like you're injured."

At this point, Su Miaomiao became angry, gritting her teeth slightly as she said, "I have encountered a formidable enemy! This person's mental strength is extremely powerful, and he was actually able to break through my charm!"

Nangong Tian was startled upon hearing this. He had experienced Su Miaomiao's seductive arts firsthand, and it had taken him a great deal of effort to break free, and that was all he managed to do.

But Su Miaomiao just said 'break'!

Nangong Tian said, "As far as I know, the group of Eastern Continent cultivators you stopped should not be such a powerful being."

Su Miaomiao said fiercely, "Qi Delong and I blocked Liu Yuexin's group and were about to succeed, but Pan Chengfeng suddenly appeared out of nowhere!"

Upon hearing the name Pan Chengfeng, Nangong Tian understood and thought to himself, "It's that kid again!"

Nangong Tian quickly looked Su Miaomiao up and down and saw that apart from being a little listless, she had no other injuries.

Only then did he feel relieved and ask, "You were lucky to escape unscathed after encountering that kid."

At this, Su Miaomiao became even angrier, her pretty face contorted with anger as she exclaimed, "What do you mean 'not bad'?! Those damned bald monks!"

"If that little bald monk hadn't kept refusing to make a move, I wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses!!"

Su Miaomiao recounted to Nangong Tian how Huineng had stopped Pan Chengfeng, and concluded by saying, "That little bald monk could stop Pan Chengfeng, but he just wouldn't make a move."

My fellow disciples suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat. Just as the Eastern Continent cultivators were about to exterminate them all, that little bald monk intervened and stopped Pan Chengfeng.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to come back to see my husband.

"Oh? Is it Huineng from Jinguang Temple?" Hearing that someone could stop Pan Chengfeng, Nangong Tian became interested and said, "I have also heard of Huineng, but unfortunately I have never met him."

Su Miaomiao knew that Nangong Tian was itching to spar with someone. Every time he heard of a master of his generation, Nangong Tian wanted to spar with them.

Su Miaomiao stepped forward again, took Nangong Tian's arm, and said coquettishly, "My lord, forget about those monks, tell me, have you missed me these days?"

Nangong Tian couldn't stand Su Miaomiao anymore and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Those monks were so sanctimonious. We rested here for a bit before setting off, which has already wasted a lot of time."

He was about to find a place to meditate when he said that, but Su Miaomiao wouldn't let him go and insisted on meditating with Nangong Tian.

The two of them left the public eye, half-heartedly.

The Hehuan Sect of the Western Continent and the Zijin Mansion of the Southern Continent have joined forces, while the three major sects of the Eastern Continent have also begun to assemble one after another.

Pan Chengfeng had been running with over a thousand cultivators for half an hour when he was about to kill them, only to find that they had stopped chasing him.

Pan Chengfeng thought to himself, "What a pity. If I had used up a little more of their magic power, I could have harvested them all. They actually ran away."

Pan Chengfeng always killed cultivators this way: first, he would use his physical strength to exchange for the cultivator's mana, and then launch a counterattack when he was almost done.

The group of cultivators had previously fought the dragon soul, and their magical power was almost completely depleted.

Pan Chengfeng originally planned to wear them down one more time before making his move, aiming to eliminate more of the Southern Continent's fighting force, but things didn't go as planned.

Since the person had already run away, Pan Chengfeng wasn't going to be foolish enough to chase after them.

If we run into Nangong Tian on the way back, it will be really dangerous.

Pan Chengfeng casually found a rock to sit on, then took out the five jade boxes he had just snatched and opened them one by one to check them.

The five Dragon Soul Grasses are each ten thousand years old, with one of them exceeding fifteen thousand years.

Pan Chengfeng chuckled and said, "This 15,000-year-old tree is for Xin'er. Let her take it to give to that old woman Liu Qian. Sigh~ who told her to be Xin'er's master?"

"We'll sell one of the remaining plants to the sect, and give the other three to Qian'er. Hmm, that's a pleasant decision."

Pan Chengfeng got up, dusted himself off, sensed Xin'er's direction, and then rode his escape light.

Xin'er led the group to the location of the Demon-Companion Grass without incident.

They tried their best to avoid cultivators from the southwestern continents along the way, and the group increased from about a thousand people to more than five thousand.

The cultivators from the Eastern Continent were hiding from the cultivators from the Southwest Continent, but the cultivators from the Southwest Continent were searching the whole world for the cultivators from the Eastern Continent.

And so, yet another unlucky soul has been targeted by cultivators from the Southwest Two Continents.

Li Ke, looking disheveled, led over eight hundred Yu Gui Sect cultivators at breakneck speed.

Ten thousand meters behind them, more than five thousand cultivators from the two southwestern continents followed closely.

They had already fought a major battle, and the original two thousand-plus Yu Gui Sect cultivators were reduced by more than half.

If Ge Sicheng hadn't stayed behind to cover their retreat, Li Ke and his group would have been unable to escape.

As Li Ke sped along, he gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, "Ever since I entered the Holy Flame Realm, I've been constantly being hunted down."

For more than a month, they didn't even give me time to meditate!

I finally ran into my fellow disciples, and then I immediately ran into that group behind me! What incredibly bad luck!

Following closely behind, Ge Siqin extended his divine sense and saw that the cultivators from the two southwestern continents were relentlessly pursuing him. He transmitted his voice and said, "Junior Brother Li, this won't do. Sooner or later, they will catch up with us."

Li Ke replied, "We can't keep running. If we run out of magic power, we'll be at their mercy. We might as well stay and fight them!"

Ge Siqin pondered for a moment and said, "No, Junior Brother, you can't be hurt."

I'll take a group to stay behind and hold them off, while my junior brother will take the rest to find Pan Chengfeng; he's the only one who can help us now.

Li Ke gritted his teeth and said, "No, don't worry, senior brother, I still have one last trick up my sleeve. Killing all those people behind me is no problem! You go first!"

Ge Siqin shook his head and said, "Junior Brother should save his last resort for competing for the Demon Companion Grass. If he uses it here, what will he do later?"

Li Ke hesitated upon hearing this. He could summon the Ghost Lord, but he could only accept the conditions for summoning the Ghost Lord to fight once.

The next time I want to summon the Ghost Lord to fight, I'll have to wait at least ten years.

Just as they were hesitating, Ge Siqin called out telepathically, "Junior brother, something's wrong! There are still people ahead!"