Suddenly, Xia Chen opened his eyes and let out a breath.
This breath is very light and light, but it is condensed and unbreakable, like a snow-white arrow of mist, hitting the dark wind that is spreading happily.
Yin Feng froze and stopped moving in an instant. All the black snow that had been rolled up slowly scattered on the ground. As the Yin Feng dispersed, a ferocious-looking, erratic gray-white thing was revealed inside.
It was about half a foot tall, with a cold aura exuding from its whole body. It opened a black mouth filled with sharp and long blue teeth, which looked very frightening.
But at this moment, it was motionless. It turned out that the entire body was frozen in a piece of crystal clear ice.
The strange thing is that the ice cube did not fall, but floated motionless in the air.
"It turns out to be a ghost." Xia Chen frowned slightly.
Those with the fourth level of supernatural power can perceive unknown things outside. In this world, there are not a few lonely ghosts, and natural spirits are not uncommon. Some ghost bodies are even very powerful.
This ghost does not have much attack power, at most it is similar to the magical power. However, it looks like it is quite intelligent. It does not look like a lonely soul, but seems to have been raised in captivity.
Xia Chen didn't bother to pay attention. If the ghost hadn't harassed him Qingxiu several times, he wouldn't have taken action. He raised his hand and pointed, and the frozen ghost instantly cracked and fell to the ground in pieces.
At this time, a figure of a man in his thirties suddenly shot out from the depths of the forest. Seeing this scene, he was shocked and angry, and shouted sternly: "You deserve to die."
Without saying a word, he pinched it with his bare hands. Waves of spiritual thoughts were heard, and countless black sword lights suddenly appeared around him, roaring towards Xia Chen.
Xia Chen's eyes turned cold. He had just guessed that this ghost seemed to have an owner. Unexpectedly, the owner had just arrived and suddenly killed him without even asking.
He waved his hand gently, and as soon as the black sword light reached halfway, it trembled slightly and then disappeared.
The man's face changed drastically, he glanced at Xia Chen with narrowed pupils, suddenly turned around, turned into a ray of light, and shot away deep into the forest.
Xia Chen didn't make any move to stop him. He just looked at the direction in which the man was escaping with cold eyes, and then walked casually towards the direction in which the man was escaping.
The opponent would never let it go. He must have seen how powerful he was and knew he was outmatched, so he went back to bring in reinforcements. It would have saved him a lot of effort in luring the snake out of its hole.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xia Chen to notice four rather powerful auras approaching quickly, so he stopped and waited quietly.
After a few breaths, four rays of escaping light appeared in front of them, then fell down and transformed into three men and one woman.
The leading man is in his forties. He has a decent appearance, is dressed in black, and is not angry or intimidating.
There were three people following him, one was the man who killed Xia Chen just now. There was also a young man and a young woman.
Xia Chen glanced over and immediately saw that the leading middle-aged man only had third-level magical powers, while the others were juniors with second-level magical powers.
"Elder Mo!" The man who killed him pointed at Xia Chen and said loudly, "This guy is the one who wanted to take away my ghost when he saw Cai Cai. He also wanted to kill me, but his subordinates didn't let him succeed.
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Not only did he beat him up, but he also lied repeatedly without changing his expression.
Elder Mo didn't say anything, he just looked at Xia Chen with a solemn look on his face.
Just now, when he was still escaping from the light, he used his spiritual thoughts to detect Xia Chen, but the result was that his spiritual thoughts were lost in the sea, and he couldn't tell the depth of Xia Chen at all, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
Moreover, this young man remained calm in the face of several of them. He was obviously not an ordinary cultivator as his incompetent subordinate said. He looked young and ordinary, maybe he was some powerful old monster.
He did not dare to be presumptuous, so he cupped his hand and said politely: "I am Mo Ganxiu of the Yuan family of Zhenhai. I am here to bring the monks from the Yuan family branch to work. I heard that there is some misunderstanding between my subordinates and fellow Taoists, so I came here to mediate. I haven't asked for advice yet.
Taoist friend Gao’s surname?”
Zhen Haiyuan's family? Xia Chen's expression changed. He was quite familiar with these four words.
Wasn't the mysterious man who pretended to be Fang Qingquan to kill him in the secret realm of the ancient city a member of Zhen Haiyuan's family? His overbearing sword power almost forced him into a desperate situation, hehe...
Mo Ganxiu saw that he had a different look on his face, and thought that the four-character sign of Zhen Haiyuan's family had intimidated him, so he felt more confident, thinking that even if he couldn't do anything to you today, he would still give you a good blow.
He was about to speak again when suddenly, Xia Chen said: "You can get out, but he has to stay."
He said, pointing at the man who just wanted to kill him.
Everyone's expressions changed, and the air suddenly became tense.
Mo Ganxiu lowered his face and said: "Friend Taoist, what do you mean? Are you trying to kill the ghost of my Zhenhaiyuan family and refuse to give an explanation, and are you planning to keep someone by force?"
His eyes narrowed slightly, and a faint blue light flashed unnoticed.
Xia Chen smiled faintly and glanced at him. He didn't bother to explain to these juniors and said indifferently: "If he doesn't stay, you can all stay."
The man who wanted to kill him said angrily: "You are so loud, Elder Mo, why should we be polite to him? He caused me to lose a powerful ghost, so just kill him and bear my loss."
"Shut up!" Mo Ganxiu suddenly interrupted him sharply.
His face became extremely pale, and he saluted deeply: "Senior, it is the junior who has offended me. I ask senior to put out the fire. We will leave now. Junior's subordinates have offended senior. I will leave this guy behind and let senior handle me."
As he spoke, he stepped back unconsciously, his voice trembling slightly, showing that he was extremely frightened.
Everyone looked at him in surprise, and the man who killed Xia Chen opened his eyes in disbelief.
They didn't know that while Xia Chen was talking, Mo Ganxiu suddenly and silently launched a spiritual attack, trying to make a sudden plot.
He is extremely good at this type of magical power, and even a peak monk in the same realm can easily suffer a secret loss if he is not careful.
Unexpectedly, when the spiritual attack was launched, not only did the opponent show no abnormality, but a powerful backlash suddenly appeared, spreading along his spiritual energy, almost causing him a big loss.
Mo Ganxiu was shocked. He immediately knew that the other party was definitely not a strong person that he could afford to offend. How could he dare to show off the Haiyuan family's sign again? He wanted to leave immediately and disappear.
Xia Chen smiled: "I'm sorry, that was my idea just now, but now I have changed my mind. Don't leave any of you. Leave them all to me."
Mo Ganxiu's face suddenly turned pale, and without thinking, he turned around and turned into a ray of light, trying his best to escape deep into the forest.
Xia Chen flicked his fingers slightly, and with a loud bang, a dazzling thunder fell without warning. Instantly, he turned into a wisp of blue smoke.
The young man and the woman screamed together and immediately turned around and ran away.
In this situation, no one knows that this young man is an old devil who kills without blinking an eye.
Xia Chen didn't even look, he just flicked his fingers, and two thunderbolts fell. The young man and the woman turned into ashes from head to toe.
Then, Xia Chen looked towards the field.
Surprisingly, the man who wanted to kill him didn't run away. Instead, he stood there and didn't move.
Xia Chen was slightly startled. Unexpectedly, this man had such courage and looked down upon death, but he felt a slight sense of admiration in his heart.
Poof, the man suddenly fell to his knees. He kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic, and even stammered when he spoke: "Wan... I don't know how to understand. I have offended my senior. Please ignore me. Please let me go. I am willing to be a bull."
Become a horse and serve your seniors."
Xia Chen looked at his face that turned pale with fright, and couldn't help being speechless. He thought to himself, I thought you were a coward because you had been making trouble for so long.
He said calmly: "Get up, I have something to ask you."
The man was overjoyed and stood up tremblingly. He thought Xia Chen would just let him go: "Thank you, senior, for not killing me."
Xia Chen asked: "That person named Mo didn't explain clearly just now. What are you doing here?"
The man hurriedly said: "Reporting to the senior, the junior and others are members of the Dark Forest branch of the Zhenhaiyuan family. They appear here to set up an altar in the dark forest in accordance with the instructions from the superiors."
"Altar?" Xia Chen looked thoughtful, "Is this forest called the Dark Forest?"
The man said: "Yes, senior, is this your first time here? The trees in this forest are called Huaiyin trees, which can absorb Yin energy, so they are particularly suitable for warming ghosts and ghosts, and they also have a great effect on the altar."
Xia Chen turned his head to look, and he had just noticed the trees here. Sure enough, although the towering trees had lush branches and leaves, they were black and gray in color, giving off a strange gloomy atmosphere.
This yin energy is quite permeable, and although it has no effect on supernatural monks, if acquired monks or mortals enter, the yin energy will slowly erode into the body. In mild cases, all kinds of diseases will reappear, and in severe cases, they will die.
No wonder that Li Hun is so arrogant... Xia Chen thought to himself, and then asked: "Why do you want to set up an altar? What do you want to summon?"
Altars are mainly used to strengthen communication with other worlds. Generally, monks at the fourth level of spiritual power or above summon the existences of other worlds. They can make sacrifices or pay a certain price, or achieve certain conditions, so that the existences of other worlds can cooperate with them.
Of course, the so-called cooperation only refers to those with similar strengths. Since the summoning process is random, no one knows what will be summoned from another world.
Summoning an existence that is too weak is of no use. Summoning an existence that is too strong may become the opponent's slave or even be killed by the opponent. This means taking a great risk, and even if a suitable existence is summoned, it is not an enhancement of oneself.
, so few monks use the altar.
The man said honestly: "This junior doesn't know that he is doing everything according to the instructions from above. Elder Mo was the one who built the altar. Our job is only to collect the ghosts of sacrifices. The more we collect, the more we gain."
The rewards will be greater.”
Xia Chen pondered for a while: "Is the altar still in the dark forest now? Take me to see it."
"Here, I will lead the way, junior." The man nodded hurriedly, stretched out his hand to lead, and walked first into the depths of the dark forest.
Xia Chen followed him with a calm expression.
His original intention was just to kill these guys who disturbed his practice, but when he heard the altar, his heart moved, and he inexplicably thought of whether he could use it to escape the pursuit of Xueyinzi and Xuezhenzi.