plumnovel Chapter 103: From Prey to Hunter
Chapter 103: From Prey to Hunter
"I understand!" Li Qianyun said, pursing her lips and bowing her head.
"Alright, let's continue on our way!" Lu Wenzheng said.
"Okay, Mr. Lu, please don't scold me like that next time, okay?" Li Qianyun said, blinking her watery eyes.
"Alright! It was my fault this time, and I will definitely not do it again next time!" Lu Wenzheng said, "But you should not speak ill of my brother. We are of mediocre talent and our fate is already set. Complaining is useless. It is already a blessing from heaven that we have a brother like Ninth Brother."
He sighed softly.
He was deeply moved that his wife was able to accompany him.
After all, things haven't been peaceful for the Li family these past few years.
"Okay!" Li Qianyun said, "I understand!"
Thus, Lu Wenzheng continued forward on his spirit horse.
"This kid... is still as pure as ever!" Yang Jiuli smiled slightly from underground.
Ever since Lu Wenzheng left Yunmeng Lake, Yang Jiuli has sent the Xuanyu Python underground to accompany him.
At the same time, he released his divine sense to sense everything outside.
The scene of Lu Wenzheng and his wife arguing was also perceived and witnessed by the divine sense.
Yang Jiuli didn't care about Li Qianyun's nagging.
There are so many women like that!
They are not familiar with each other and are destined to have little interaction, so there is no need to pay attention to them.
As for Lu Wenzheng, although the two had a friendship, Yang Jiuli would not interfere too much in his family affairs.
They will only offer limited assistance.
After all, everyone has their own destiny, and no one else can change it.
Yang Jiuli would not act as a so-called savior; he only needed to repay the debt to the Lu family and settle the karmic debt.
While traveling underground, Yang Jiuli's divine sense cautiously probed in all directions.
A short while later, the carriage passed through a canyon.
This time, Lu Wenzheng deliberately took a different route.
However, Daze County has many mountains, and the distance between Yunmeng Lake and Longhu Lake is more than a thousand miles, with many dangerous canyons in between.
After arriving at this canyon, Yang Jiuli became even more cautious.
This type of terrain is the easiest place for people to ambush.
……
Along the edge of the canyon, there are dense forests.
At this moment, Hao Zheng, a cultivator from Xuan Yin Valley, and three men in black robes were lying in ambush on a hillside.
They used a Concealing Breath Talisman and a small, mid-grade Tier 1 Mist Array to conceal themselves.
The purpose is to avoid being discovered, so as to strike the target with lightning speed when they pass by, catching them off guard.
When Lu Wenzheng drove away, he would also release his divine sense to sense the surroundings.
However, his cultivation level is too low. He has only reached the sixth level of Qi Refining and has not yet been able to break through to the seventh level.
He could only sense a distance of about 300 meters.
This faint spiritual consciousness cannot be released outwards too often, otherwise it will exhaust the spiritual energy, making it impossible to release the spiritual consciousness outwards.
Therefore, Lu Wenzheng only glanced around briefly before withdrawing his divine sense.
They were completely unaware of Hao Zheng, who was hiding within the formation.
"Brother Zheng, you're here!" At this moment, a Qi Refining Level 8 cultivator holding a curved sword on the hillside pointed his gaze and said.
This person's name is Tang Man.
The Xuan Yin Valley cultivator wielding a giant hammer that Yang Jiuli killed sixteen years ago was his elder brother.
The other two people next to them perked up.
Hao Zheng's gaze sharpened, and he released his divine sense.
"Only two people?" Hao Zheng's divine sense immediately spotted Lu Wenzheng and Li Qianyun, and he looked disappointed.
Clearly, he wasn't waiting for Lu Wenzheng and his wife.
"Brother, Yang Jiuli didn't come!" Tang Man said, turning around.
"This guy... Old Master Lu is seriously injured and on the verge of death, and he doesn't even go to see him? He's so heartless!" Hao Zheng said through gritted teeth.
Surprisingly, Lu Bingzhi's serious injury was arranged by Hao Zheng and his group.
The purpose was to have the Lu family send a message, summoning Yang Jiuli and Lu Wenzheng, who were at the Li family's residence in Yunmeng Lake, to return and rescue people.
There has been a lot of turmoil outside the Li family lately. If Yang Jiuli were to consider their past relationship, he should travel with Lu Wenzheng.
To their surprise, after lying in ambush for several days, they were met by Lu Wenzheng and his wife.
This made Hao Zheng grit his teeth, thinking that Yang Jiuli was disloyal.
……
At this moment, Yang Jiuli released his divine sense.
He can detect distances of 500 meters in a straight line.
"Hiss." Before Yang Jiuli could even notice Hao Zheng, the Xuan Yu Python beneath his feet had already locked onto the man and made a sound.
"Have you found anything?"
Seeing this, Yang Jiuli released his divine sense and sank into the bloodline markings on the forehead of the Xuanyu Python, using the python's perspective to sense the way.
Following this sensation, they discovered Hao Zheng and Tang Man, along with three others, lurking on a hillside 300 meters away from the canyon.
"It's him!" With just one glance, Yang Jiuli recognized Hao Zheng: "It really was a trap set against me!"
He understood.
Yang Jiuli sensed something was amiss when Lu Wenzheng mentioned that Old Master Lu had been injured.
Now that he saw Hao Zheng, Yang Jiuli understood.
It must have been a scheme orchestrated by this cultivator from Xuan Yin Valley, all to lure me out of Yunmeng Lake so I could take my revenge.
"I wonder if there are any Foundation Establishment cultivators here!" Yang Jiuli thought to himself, and gestured for the Xuan Yu Python to sense its surroundings.
The Jade Python glanced around.
No one else was found to be lurking.
Still not entirely at ease, Yang Jiuli ordered the Xuanyu Python to flee rapidly towards the outer perimeter to check if any cultivators were lurking in the distance.
The Xuanyu Python is a snake and has unique senses from birth.
After it mutated, its perception doubled.
Yang Jiuli could only scan things within a radius of 500 meters using his divine sense.
The Jade Python can sense things within a radius of 1,500 meters.
Even with the opponent's array concealing them, the special energy of humans could not be hidden and was easily sensed by the Xuan Yu Python.
……
At this moment, Lu Wenzheng's carriage had gradually moved further and further away in the long canyon.
"What do we do?" Tang Man watched the carriage disappear into the distance, then turned his gaze back and asked, "Should we still make a move?"
The other two cultivators also looked at Hao Zheng.
"Damn it, that kid really didn't come along!" Hao Zheng frowned and cursed under his breath.
"That carriage is already a thousand meters away!" a monk said.
"Shall we make a move?" Tang Man continued to ask.
He was itching to make a move.
If they pursued them now, there would still be a chance to intercept and kill Lu Wenzheng and his wife.
If we go any further, unexpected things might happen.
"This kid is so cunning. If we touch Lu Wenzheng now, he'll just stay holed up in Yunmeng Lake and not come out," Hao Zheng said. "Forget it, we'll find another opportunity to kill him later!" Hao Zheng gritted his teeth and withdrew the divine sense he had released.
His face was full of resentment.
Sixteen years ago, he and Kuang Liming failed in their attempt to ambush the cultivators of Yunmeng Lake, and suffered heavy losses.
Hao Zheng almost died.
He will never forget that scene.
The two brothers were killed before their very eyes.
He investigated Yang Jiuli afterwards.
While the Li family members from Yunmeng Lake were out, he deliberately lay in wait nearby and, when an opportunity arose, mentioned the ambush on the Li family by Xuan Yin Valley.
At that time, this matter was still a hot topic.
The Li family is also proud of their achievements and is happy to publicize them.
The news of Yang Jiuli killing Kuang Qi and others naturally spread.
Thus, Hao Zheng finally learned that the one who attacked and killed his brother and Kuang Qi was a low-level cultivator named Yang Jiuli.
At that time, I had only reached the first level of Qi Refining.
This made Hao Zheng feel extremely ashamed.
How could I have been scared away by a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining?
Afterwards, he decided to take revenge.
Unfortunately, Xuan Yin Valley was under pressure from the Qingyan Immortal Sect in those years and had to keep a low profile.
Now we've finally found an opportunity.
Who would have thought that Yang Jiuli never appeared at all.
After more than a decade of planning, he thought the opportunity to kill his enemy was just around the corner, only to find that the enemy never showed up at all.
How could he accept this?
"Were you waiting for me?" Just then, a leisurely voice rang out.
This is Yang Jiuli's voice.
The Xuan Yu Python swiftly circled underground but did not find any Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Thus, they quickly arrived at the ambush site where Hao Zheng and his men were lying in wait.
"Who? Who is it?" Hao Zheng was startled when he heard the sudden voice.
Just then, a chilling aura surged from the ground where he stood.
"Wildfire..." Upon seeing this, a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining immediately cast a spell.
He made hand gestures, and flames flickered at his fingertips.
He pointed his hand gesture toward the ground.
Immediately, a surge of flames rushed towards the ground.
The flames swept away, spreading like wildfire, and blocked the cold air.
boom!
Just then, Yang Jiuli flew out from the ground and appeared in the air.
Yang Jiuli brandished the Cold Fiend Sword, unleashing a crescent-shaped sword beam that slashed directly at Hao Zheng and the others below.
Hao Zheng and his group were enveloped by the formation, so to outsiders, their area appeared to be just a cloud of mist, with no one else around.
At this moment, the sword energy swept in, causing the formation to manifest and evolve into a transparent light shield that protected Hao Zheng and the other three.
These four people then came into view.
boom!
In the blink of an eye, the crescent-shaped sword beam struck the light barrier.
The array's protective barrier trembled, and then shattered like a mirror.
"Not good..." Hao Zheng moved and immediately flew backward.
brush!
The crescent-shaped sword light slashed down, landing on the spot where Hao Zheng had just stood.
The cultivator who used fire magic was unable to dodge in time and was directly blasted away by the sword energy, landing heavily injured.
Tang Man and the other person managed to dodge in time.
"That was close!" Tang Man gasped when he saw the sword wounds and ice crystals spreading on the body of the brother who had used fire magic to resist the cold.
If he hesitates even for a moment, he will be another one lying on the ground.
Hao Zheng stood in mid-air.
He has now reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, reaching the tenth level of the Qi Refining Realm, and his magical power is incomparably strong.
He looked at Yang Jiuli ahead, his pupils suddenly shrinking, "It's you!"
Enemies meeting are bound to be filled with hatred.
Hao Zheng's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Yang Jiuli in front of him.
He never expected that the guy he thought was a coward would appear before him in this way.
At the same time, he was also quite shocked by the aura that Yang Jiuli was exuding at this moment.
"Seventh level of Qi Refining? No, how can your aura be comparable to the late-stage perfection of Qi Refining?" Hao Zheng looked at Yang Jiuli with disbelief. Yang Jiuli's body was now filled with surging, cold Qi, ready to be unleashed. His aura was like that of a fierce tiger.
Hao Zheng actually sensed a dangerous aura.
"Didn't they say he only reached the first level of Qi Refining sixteen years ago?" Tang Man, standing beside him, also looked surprised.
"Hmph, no matter what methods you used, you will die today!" Hao Zheng sneered.
With a flick of his hand, a dark light flashed in his palm, and a Yin Sha Blade appeared.
"Yin Wind Slash!" Hao Zheng moved his hand, and the Yin Sha Blade transformed into a stream of light, slashing towards Yang Jiuli.