Chapter 182

Chapter 182: Profound Thunder Violet Flame 1

Wei Yun Qing’s face turned dark. She felt that ever since she met Wei Yun Xi, she had started having bad luck. Last time, the flying ship had been attacked halfway and crashed near the outskirts of the Bao Hua Mountain Range, leaving her nine deaths and one life. Now she did not know what was wrong with the flying ship again.

At this moment, many cultivators gathered on the deck, all sharing the same question.

The one stationed on the flying ship was a female cultivator at mid Golden Core. She clasped her hands politely toward everyone and explained, “Fellow Daoists, I am the Ship-Guarding Master of Tian Lin Flying Ship Company. Just now, we received a message from the merchant house. A flying ship nearby has been attacked by demonic beasts and needs this Master to go provide rescue. So the flying ship can only travel as far as here. You may go to a nearby city to transfer to another company’s ship. Tian Lin Flying Ship Company will compensate you by refunding double the fare. Please forgive us.”

The cultivators who had been unhappy at first all put away their displeasure once they heard they would get double their fare back.

The flying ship had already traveled a quarter of the route. With this compensation, it meant they had not spent a single spirit stone and even earned some. So after receiving the refunded spirit stones, they decisively got off the flying ship.

Wei Yun Qing took the spirit stones as well. Like everyone else, she prepared to leave Yan Dang Mountain and go to a nearby city to transfer to another flying ship. In any case, she could not delay her return to the sect.

But Yun Qing did not know that on the other side of two mountain peaks away, a group of demonic cultivators was tracking a purple strange flame. And the strange flame was fleeing in the direction of where the flying ship had just landed.

When Yun Xi received the message from Little Fei Xia Butterfly and learned that Yun Qing’s flying ship had descended for no reason at Yan Dang Mountain, she also got news from Third Rank Fei Xia Butterfly, which was following behind the demonic cultivators. It reported that the demonic cultivators had forced Profound Thunder Violet Flame out, and were currently capturing it.

Yun Xi paused mid-step. A playful smile appeared on her face. It seemed some things were pretty stubborn too. They actually wanted to create conditions for Wei Yun Qing to steal her opportunity. Was this because she had emptied Yun Qing’s space, so it was trying to compensate the other party in a different way?

[Hmph! Then let’s see whose hands this strange flame ends up in!]

After thinking that, Yun Xi directly threw out the Yun Xia Flying Boat and embedded high-grade spirit stones, making the boat surge forward at full speed. After she activated the flying boat’s defenses, she began meditating to recover her spiritual power.

Once she restored her condition to peak, she changed into a black robe. She even deliberately altered her face and adjusted the cultivation she displayed outwardly to late Foundation Establishment. Finally, she chose an unremarkable spirit sword as her weapon.

The Seven-Star Doom Staff was her main weapon, so she naturally could not use it. That would make it easy for Wei Yun Qing to notice something. She also refused to use ice-type spells. Wei Yun Qing knew about her becoming a disciple under True Lord Yu Ling, and True Lord Yu Ling’s strongest techniques were ice spells.

So she had to eliminate every possible clue that could expose her. Even if she had to fight Wei Yun Qing face-to-face for the strange flame, she could not let the other party suspect it was her.

After preparing these disguises, she reached the Yan Dang Mountain Range. Yun Xi put away the Yun Xia Flying Boat. With a flash of her figure, she entered the mountain range. Guided by Fei Xia Butterfly’s hints, she followed the demonic cultivators’ trail and tracked them.

By the time Yun Xi arrived at the battlefield, the demonic cultivators and the other cultivators were already fighting in a chaotic melee. The Profound Thunder Violet Flame that everyone coveted floated quietly in the very center of the battle circle, as if it had been trapped.

Wei Yun Qing had already put away her frustration. While she fought with her sword, she also kept watching the floating strange flame with her divine sense. She felt her good luck had returned. As long as she contracted this strange flame, she would definitely be able to become a disciple under Fire-Commanding True Lord.

Yun Xi naturally noticed the determination in Wei Yun Qing’s eyes, but she let out a breath in relief instead. As long as it was not in Wei Yun Qing’s pocket yet, Yun Xi could still snatch it. And she had to act quickly, because when she rushed over just now, she saw a cultivator send a flying sword message. A high-level cultivator would likely arrive soon.

“Dian Dian, you take the Fourth Rank array disk and go underground to the spot beneath the thing trapping the strange flame. In a moment, I will release Nascent Soul Stage pressure to suppress these people temporarily. You seize the chance to activate the array disk. You must trap that strange flame,” Yun Xi said.

Dian Dian immediately nodded his small head. “Dian Dian understands.”

With his own little storage bag hanging on him, he nimbly drilled into the ground.

After Dian Dian left, Yun Xi slowly released her divine sense and watched the battlefield.

Once Dian Dian sent a message that he had reached the designated location, Yun Xi’s divine sense surged out violently, crushing both the cultivators and the demonic cultivators to the ground. In the next instant, Dian Dian activated the array disk.

“Not good, someone is ambushing us!” a cultivator shouted. The moment Yun Xi withdrew her divine sense, he swung his sword and began attacking indiscriminately.

Wei Yun Qing relied on her personal space and charged toward where the strange flame was without caring about anything else. She wanted to put both the strange flame and whatever was trapping it into her personal space, then contract it after she returned.

Just as Wei Yun Qing’s hand touched the edge of the formation, a bolt of purple lightning struck the back of her hand precisely. She let out a muffled groan and reflexively pulled her hand back.

Then Wei Yun Qing saw a black-robed female cultivator rush into the formation. In the next moment, the formation and the strange flame both vanished.

Everything happened in a flash. The instant the strange flame disappeared, a powerful pressure swept over and flipped everyone to the ground. Then a figure appeared in midair.

The newcomer was a male cultivator. He released his divine sense and swept every inch of the space below, then asked coldly, “Where is the strange flame?”

A male cultivator immediately replied, “True Lord, before you arrived, a Nascent Soul cultivator came. He used an array disk to control the strange flame, and then both the array disk and the strange flame disappeared.”

The Nascent Soul cultivator in the air frowned and asked, “Who was the last to approach the strange flame?”

Everyone turned their gaze toward Wei Yun Qing. A cultivator’s divine sense did not lie.

Wei Yun Qing was furious. She forced herself to hold on and said, “Senior, this junior is a registered disciple of Fire-Commanding True Lord of the Hao Ran Sect. Just now, a female cultivator in a black robe rushed into the formation. After that, the formation and the strange flame disappeared together. This junior was not the last one to touch the formation.”

The male cultivator stared at Yun Qing for a long time before saying, “Since you are a registered disciple of the one who commands fire, then this lord will give you a ride.”

With that, he used a sleeve technique to sweep Wei Yun Qing away. Before leaving, he also killed the ten demonic cultivators present.

After True Lord left, everyone finally breathed out. Then, cursing, they left the area. Still, a few stubborn cultivators did not go far. They hid at a distance, wanting to confirm whether the strange flame had truly disappeared.

At this moment, Yun Xi lay collapsed inside the wooden token space. Her face was twisted, and a layer of pale purple flames covered her body, as if it were roasting her.

Dian Dian hopped anxiously at the side, but he did not dare approach those flames.

What had just happened was extremely dangerous. The moment Dian Dian sensed a pulling force, his master attacked Wei Yun Qing first. Then she tried to take the array disk, Dian Dian, and the strange flame into the space together.

But at that exact moment, something unexpected happened. The strange flame broke free of its restraints and tried to rush out of the trapped formation. It was blocked by his master, so the strange flame simply drilled straight into her body.

Yun Xi felt her blood being roasted dry in an instant. At the same time, she sensed another pressure. With her last shred of clarity, she dragged Dian Dian and the array disk into the space.