Chapter 337.
“Ah!”
Accompanied by a short and mournful scream, the middle-aged female cultivator who had sneaked up on Wang Dust was struck by the fire raven that descended from the sky.
Her protective spiritual light instantly broke, and her entire body was instantly covered in scorching flames, turning into ashes in the blink of an eye!
In fact, this middle-aged female cultivator’s strength was quite good, with her cultivation realm reaching the seventh level of Qi Practicing.
But as usual, she couldn’t block Wang Chen’s blow.
This was the insurmountable gap between Qi Practicing cultivators and Purple Mansion cultivators!
“Retreat!”
The bandit leader who witnessed this scene bared his teeth and immediately flicked his body backward, disappearing into the dense woods in an instant.
The remaining few bandit cultivators followed and fled in all directions.
They were well aware of Wang Chen’s power and fled in different directions.
Wang Dust retrieved the Wind and Thunder Sword with his probing hand and launched a chase.
He ignored the minions and stared at the leader as he tracked him all the way.
Although he was unfamiliar with the terrain, with Wang Chen’s current cultivation strength, catching up with this high level Qi Practicing bandit was not a problem at all, yet he kept following behind without slowing down.
This bandit leader practiced some kind of recluse technique and flew through the forest extremely fast.
Moreover, he was quite vigilant and cunning, his escape route was untraceable, jumping up and down left and right.
Not to mention a cultivator of the same rank, even a Purple Mansion cultivator, wanting to keep tracking the other party without being able to detect it, was not a simple and easy thing.
Wang Chen maintained a distance of three to four hundred paces from him, and enchanted himself with the Hidden God Technique.
Then he used his divine sense to firmly lock onto the target.
In such a situation, Wang Chen’s powerful Divine Soul attribute played a huge role.
The bandit leader vanished out of the mountains for more than a dozen miles in one breath, and never found Wang Dust’s presence, so he thought he was safe before slowing down and changing directions to continue his journey.
After almost an incense stick of time, the bandit leader stopped in front of a cliff.
He vigilantly scanned back and leapt into the bushes with a sway of his body.
The whole person disappeared.
Moments later, Wang Dust appeared in front of this cliff.
He realized that he had lost his target.
However, Wang Dust did not feel chagrined or disappointed by this as he carefully observed his surroundings.
In front of him was a steep cliff that was at least two to three hundred feet high when he looked up.
The jungle below the cliff was dense, so it was very easy to hide someone.
Wang Chen believed in his own perception ability and could determine that the other party was not hiding in the neighborhood.
Or flew away on a magic weapon.
Then where did the person go?
After thinking about it, he raised his right hand, index and middle fingers together to form a sword finger, and wiped it in front of his eyes.
The Cave Truth Technique was activated!
In the next moment, the surrounding space presented a richer and more realistic picture in Wang Chen’s field of vision.
The scene in front of him changed.
A path leading to the bottom of the cliff was clearly revealed!
Illusion Formation!
There was actually an illusion formation set up in front of the mountain cliff, and it was quite subtle.
In the place of an ordinary cultivator, it would definitely have been concealed.
But under the Purple Mansion level Cave Truth Technique, the other party’s disguise had nothing to hide.
Wang Chen’s gaze followed the path and found the outline of a portal showing up on the cliff again.
His heart snowballed, he had found the bandit’s lair!
Seeing such a scene, Wang Dust did not hesitate and directly swept over.
He slapped his palm on the cliff portal!
This kind of cave portal was bound to have a prohibition set up, and without knowing the way to enter it could only be broken by force.
Boom!
Wang Dust’s punch was first augmented with the Grand Completion level Mud and Stone Technique, instantly turning the hard rock into soft mud.
Then the strong mana went straight through and blasted out a one-foot square hole!
The stone wall portal shook violently, and countless amounts of mud fell down.
Without changing his face, Wang Dust slapped out a second and third palm in succession.
Expanding the hole that had already been punched through.
In total, he slapped five palms, and he hardened a large hole large enough to accommodate an adult’s entry and exit!
With a flash, Wang Chen swept in.
He didn’t forget to enchant himself with the Heavy Light Shield Armor – being careful is a good thing.
Behind the portal, there must be a cave!
The space in the bandit’s lair was large, so large that it was beyond Wang Chuan’s imagination.
It was actually a huge cavern inside, and everywhere as far as the eye could see was an upside-down stalactite.
Although they were not visible to the sun, some kind of mushrooms that could glow were growing on these stalactites and the cave walls, and they emitted a faint milky-white light that was enough to allow Wang Chuan to see the scene inside clearly.
The ground was wet, and a rotten odor hung in the air.
But there was no sign of anyone.
Wang Dust swept forward while stimulating his divine sense to launch a search.
When he was two to three hundred paces deeper into the cave, he suddenly felt that the situation was not right.
Without waiting for Wang Chuan to react, the dozens of stalactites around him suddenly blazed with light, countless runes appeared on their surface, and an invisible force instantly enveloped him!
Wang Chen instantly felt like he was plunged into a quagmire, and the operation of the mana in his body became difficult.
Not only that, the heaven and earth aura in the surrounding space instantly disappeared, or rather was rejected.
It formed an area similar to a mundane Spirit Extinction Zone.
Spirit Sealing Array!
Wang Chen immediately understood.
The Spirit Sealing Formation was capable of isolating the spiritual qi and sealing the mana within the cultivator’s body.
The cultivator who set up this formation was quite clever, and with the help of the cave’s special environment, he skillfully set the formation’s eyes on the stalactites, and even Wang Chen was inadvertently caught.
“Hahaha~”
A wild laughter reached Wang Chen’s ears.
Gray-clothed bandits armed with crossbows and arrows appeared all around him, a crossbow and arrow glittering with cold light aimed at his vitals, while the bandit leader, who had been tracked all the way by Wang Dust earlier, appeared in front of him in a big way.
Removing his scarf revealed a shadowy, aged face.
“Village Chief Wang, you didn’t expect it!”
The bandit leader said sorrowfully, “I was waiting for you to come to my door!”
Kind of interesting.
Wang Dust, who was trapped in a heavy siege, smiled, “Are all the people here?”
The bandit leader froze, then burst into a rage, “Kill!”
He didn’t say any more nonsense and immediately issued a kill order!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
A crossbow arrow shot towards Wang Chen.
Due to the effect of the Spirit Sealing Formation, the spells attached to these crossbows were not activated, so their power was reduced by quite a bit.
However, they were still powerful enough to pierce through gold and stone!
Wang Chen’s mana was similarly limited, and the light of his protective heavy light shield armor dimmed, his defensive power being weakened by more than one level.
Under such circumstances, the threat of the crossbow arrows to him was undoubtedly greatly increased.
Not only that, after the first wave of arrows were fired, three gray-clothed bandits pounced towards Wang Chen from different directions.
Their hands were athletic with amazing momentum, and the blades in their hands flickered with a regal light.
The aura of Qi gulping was incomparable.
Innate experts!