Chapter 478: Chapter 476: Ambush (Seeking Subscription)_1
Several days later.
Although somewhat reluctant, Fang Xi still left Ruyi Gate, that tender land, and prepared to return to Jade Island.
He transformed into a streak of flying light, discreetly heading towards Yuan Country.
Whoosh whoosh!
Above the nine heavens, the fierce winds howled.
Just as he was about to cross the border of Yuan Country, Fang Xi suddenly halted his Escape Light, his eyebrows lifting: "Come out!"
Silence surrounded him, with only the sound of wind howling.
With a wave of his hand, Fang Xi released the Five Elements Ring, which expanded to the size of the Eight Immortals Table, enveloping his body. The Green Barley Sword was also in his hand, its tip pointed toward a certain part of the Void.
"I didn’t expect... you’ve already advanced to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul!"
In that part of the Void, a glimmer of silver brilliance flashed, the surroundings became hazy, and then two large figures appeared.
No, it would be more accurate to call them Transformed Great Demons!
One of them, dressed in a green robe with ordinary features, was ’Elder Qing’, and the other, with an arrogant demeanor staring down Fang Xi as if willing to devour him whole, was ’Feng Shisan’!
"So it’s the two of you, what... are you planning to ambush me?"
Fang Xi was slightly surprised, then sneered as he tested the waters.
"To have advanced to mid-stage Nascent Soul... It seems you’ve also cultivated some kind of Divine Consciousness cultivation technique. By now, your Divine Consciousness should be comparable to that of late-stage Nascent Soul, otherwise, you would have had no way to detect my Void concealment method..."
Elder Qing scrutinized Fang Xi, his eyes filled with slight astonishment and doubt.
’Sigh... Both the Righteous and Demon Paths are useless!’
Fang Xi sighed silently in his heart, but he also understood the helplessness of the human race’s side.
The two highest combat powers were currently in retreat, healing, and even if they were to come out, the border between Jiang and Feng countries was incredibly long, always providing small-scale smuggling opportunities.
Furthermore... Not to mention Elder Qing, even if Feng Shisan truly wished to flee, even the Demon Lord Tian Du personally taking action might not guarantee his capture.
These two Transformed Great Demons risked being besieged to sneak into human territories; clearly, they were after no small matter.
Elder Qing stared at Fang Xi, his expression extremely solemn: "The technique you used before, was it the Kuyong Mysterious Light? Are you a remnant of the ancient Green Emperor Mountain?"
Fang Xi’s expression instantly turned extremely grave.
This matter, someone was finally raising it, although it wasn’t someone from the human race...
Tian Du and several old monsters, even if guessing, didn’t dare to clarify, they were afraid that Fang Xi would just obliterate them with a streak of Mysterious Light...
After all, in the Cultivation World, there were no rights or wrongs, only strength dictated victory or defeat.
Now, with no Transcendent God cultivators in the South Wilderness, Fang Xi, who had cultivated the Kuyong Mysterious Light, was the undisputed number one!
Even if he wanted to rebuild Green Emperor Mountain, it’s very likely that both the Righteous and Demon Paths would have to smile and contribute, then present generous gifts...
"As for me cultivating the cultivation techniques of Green Emperor Mountain, what of it? As for remnants... Heh, it’s merely a heritage I unearthed from an ancient cultivator’s Dongfu."
Fang Xi casually provided a true explanation.
He really wasn’t any heir to Green Emperor Mountain...
"Heh heh..."
Elder Qing’s face showed disbelief: "When Green Emperor Mountain fell, its techniques scattered widely, yet no one was able to cultivate the ’Kuyong Mysterious Light’... To cultivate the ’Kuyong Mysterious Light’, one must be a true heir of Green Emperor Mountain!"
Fang Xi’s heart skipped a beat, knowing his previous guess was correct.
Without receiving the secret cultivation insights from Green Emperor Mountain, or possessing something like the ’Yi Wood Magic Body’ as he did, even if one fortunately cultivated the ’Kuyong Golden Core’, they might not be able to cultivate the ’Kuyong Mysterious Light’.
’But by this logic, my identity as a remnant of Green Emperor Mountain seems to be confirmed...’
’No, that’s not right. Can’t it just be a natural ’Yi Wood Magic Body’ that happened to pick up the ’Kuyong Skills’?’
Fang Xi looked at Elder Qing in front of him, wanting to ask exactly that to see if the other party would believe it.
However, he knew the likelihood of belief was slim...
Furthermore, when the Array Spirit White Deer saw him, it had promptly branded him the ’heir of Green Emperor Mountain’.
Even if his previous techniques were found, after his experience in the Evergreen Garden Secret Land and the White Deer’s personal acknowledgment, it seems he should indeed probably be considered a remnant of Green Emperor Mountain?
’This pot seems to be stuck on my head; so be it, I’ll just silence them!’
He turned his gaze to Elder Qing and Feng Shisan: "Even if I am a descendant of Green Emperor Mountain, so what?"
"The Lord has ordered, those from Green Emperor Mountain, shall be put to death without mercy!"
Elder Qing’s expression turned cold, with silver patterns emerging around his body, causing even the surrounding Void to ripple.
The Heavenly Phoenix Clan was naturally adept at manipulating Void Force, becoming even more formidable after reaching fourth-order high-quality!
This ’Elder Qing’ was only causing slight ripples in the surrounding Void with his magic power fluctuations, which gave Fang Xi the feeling that he was not any less formidable than other Monster cultivators like Feng Qing who used secret skills!
"Yun Jiezi, you have disrupted our Monster Clan’s affairs, deserving death a thousand times over!"
Feng Shisan looked at Fang Xi, his eyes fiercely cold.
He, together with Elder Qing, was ready to act, and this mere mid-stage Nascent Soul human culturor shall not leave alive!
"You are the one who will die! You dare to attack a Puppet Master; you’ve got courage!"
Fang Xi laughed loudly, dropping the pretense, and casually waved his hand.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
One after another, puppets with terrifying auras appeared!
Among them were fourth-order intermediate creatures such as the Winged Tiger and Monster Moon Bull, as well as fourth-order lower creatures like the Iron Wing Eagle and Hei Wei... and finally, one true puppet emerged, a human-bodied eagle-headed secret battle puppet from Thousand Mechanism Palace!
"Kill this demon!"
Fang Xi beckoned again, and Xiao Qing appeared, looking at Feng Shisan in front of him, spitting out a cluster of azure flames from its beak.
"Azure Luan True Fire!"
Feng Shisan exclaimed in shock as a pale blue bowl appeared in front of him.
Within the bowl, sounds that resembled the roaring of a vast ocean could be heard...
"To have refined Hei Wei and Bull Bully into puppets... and to enslave the geniuses of our clan as spiritual pets..."
Elder Qing didn’t care about Feng Shisan who was getting beaten up, but he looked at Fang Xi with a very grave expression, "Your puppet mastery has somewhat exceeded my expectations..."
"Old man, whether you live or die today is not yet certain. Have you recovered the primordial energy you lost when you were besieged by the seven ancient demons and Demon Lord Tian Du?"
Fang Xi snorted coldly.
In fact, he was still hiding a wooden puppet with Green Horn Silver Arm; after all, this member of the Five Elements Qilin Tribe was killed by Master Mu. If Elder Qing were to relay this back to the Monster World, and the Five Elements Qilin Tribe found out, then another layer of his disguise would be peeled off...
"Have I recovered my primordial energy or not... why don’t you try and find out?" Elder Qing’s expression suddenly turned somewhat mysterious.
Bang!
The next moment, a silver light flickered behind Fang Xi, and a figure flew out with arms transforming into the claws of a Heavenly Phoenix, fiercely landing on the ’Five Elements Ring’.
Hum!
This sudden attack made Fang Xi stagger, causing the Five Elements Ring to flash intensely.
In the void, it was as if a five-colored lotus blossomed, smashing down towards the sneak-attacking shadow.
The shadow dodged, its body flashing with silver light, avoiding the blow from the multicolored lotus, and arriving next to Elder Qing, revealing itself to be an ’exact copy’ of him, though the aura was slightly weaker.
"Externalization?!"
Fang Xi was not surprised.
Reaching the later stages of Nascent Soul, mastering such secret skills was not something unusual.
Although externalization is mostly a secret skill of the Demon Path, there are similar methods in the Righteous Path, and among the Monster Clan, there might even be innate Divine Skills like ’Incarnation’!
"Chirp!"
On the other side, Xiao Qing, with the support of many fourth-order puppets, was displaying overwhelming power, bombarding Feng Shisan, who was of mid-fourth-order, relentlessly.
Even though Feng Shisan had exceptional talent and was at the pinnacle of mid-fourth-order, facing such an array, he could only scurry away while cursing Xiao Qing as a traitor to their race.
Unperturbed by such accusations, Xiao Qing didn’t even blink but simply opened his mouth to spout another stream of ’Azure Luan True Fire’.
Blazing!
The azure flames narrowly missed Feng Shisan’s feathers, scorching them slightly black and curly, making him look extremely disheveled...
...
"Waste!"
Elder Qing didn’t expect Feng Shisan to help in the battle anymore. After cursing inwardly, he fiercely formed a hand seal.
A ball of flame burst forth from his mouth, which turned out to be Azure Luan True Fire as well!
Moreover, as soon as this ball of Azure Luan True Fire appeared, it burned so hot that the void began to distort, the temperature around it soared, and a distinct silhouette of a true Azure Luan began to take shape, clearly something extraordinary!
’It seems that this Heavenly Phoenix has traces of the Azure Luan lineage...’ Fang Xi thought to himself upon seeing this.
"Scum of Green Emperor Mountain, I will not spare you!" Elder Qing roared, while the externalized body next to him flashed with blue light, suddenly unleashing a Wind-attribute Divine Skill!
Roar!
Swarms of azure Wind Flood Dragons appeared, forming into a massive tornado that swept up the Azure Luan True Fire.
The terrifying Wind Flood Dragons conjoined with the Fire Phoenix, forming an incredibly destructive hurricane that swept towards Fang Xi!
Wind feeds the fire’s power!
Fire overpowers the Wooden Element!
Moreover, the flames cast by his opponent were none other than the powerful Divine Skill, Azure Luan True Fire!
With an advantage in cultivation realm, late-stage versus mid-stage, the situation was incredibly crushing!
Fang Xi’s circumstances became extremely bad at once!
"It really has come down to... using my full strength." Fang Xi remarked, as a hazy bead flew out.
The Wind-Controlling Bead!
Accompanied by mid-Nascent Soul level magic power infusion, a hazy halo emerged, fiercely sweeping towards those wind blades and Flood Dragons!
Enveloped in the haze, the Wind Flood Dragons cried out pitifully as their sizes shrank by several times, and their power plummeted!
The Wind Fire Tornado immediately showed weaknesses!
The Five Elements Ring around Fang Xi spun, and in the void, a huge five-colored lotus formed. From wood birthed fire, from fire birthed earth, from earth birthed metal, from metal birthed water!
Wood is the beginning of the Five Elements, and water is the end!
Outwardly, this transformation meant the five-colored lotus shifted from green to red, then from red to yellow, yellow to white... eventually becoming a lotus as if from the depths of the netherworld, shrouded in a misty dreamlike aura!
Splash!
It was as if the sound of surging waters echoed in the void, with the Five Elements Water Lotus meeting the Azure Luan Fire Phoenix!
One by one, pitch-black lotus petals fell, each containing numerous intricate runes that flashed briefly before being rapidly burnt and evaporated by the Azure Luan Fire...
In the end, the netherworldly black lotus and the phoenix formed from Azure Luan Fire both vanished without a trace...
"The Wind-Controlling Bead, along with the Five Elements Ring... so it was you who traded with Feng Shisan that day!?"
Elder Qing’s face suddenly turned very grave: "To be able to catch up with me in a magic duel at just mid-Nascent Soul stage... your talent is truly astonishing, making you an incomparably rare genius among the human race!"