Chapter 318.
After the great battle, the ground was in shambles.
The jubilation of the cultivators lasted only for a moment.
Although they had once again repelled the Three-Eyed Stone Ape, however, this victory could not cover up the tragic casualties of the mountain-breaking team at all.
Everyone quickly fell silent.
With hundreds of Purple Mansions plus an even larger number of high-level Qi Practitioners, and ten profoundly cultivated and experienced ferrymen leading the team, when they first entered the Jade Dragon Mountain Range, quite a few cultivators were full of confidence.
With such a powerful team, plus the existence of the Jade Dragon Oath, why worry about not being able to break through this heavenly rift?
The first few days of the journey were indeed as smooth as they thought.
Ordinary demonic beasts did not dare to provoke them at all.
However, everyone’s confidence was completely shattered today.
That unknown great demon’s single strike had cost the mountain-breaking team thirty-nine people killed in action and hundreds injured!
The casualties were more than half!
Within the dead were three ferrymen with Purple Mansion cultivation, and another three were injured in varying degrees of severity.
With such a loss, killing more three-eyed stone apes could not make up for it!
The morale of the team was low to the extreme.
Some of the injured cultivators stared at the ferryman leading the group with indignant gazes, causing the atmosphere to become tense again.
“I’m sorry, we didn’t want to have such an accident.”
The ferryman leading the group was surnamed Xu, a high level Purple Mansion cultivator, and he said expressionlessly, “For the rest of the journey, it’s up to you guys to decide whether to continue on or go back the way you came.”
In fact, this cultivator surnamed Xu’s heart was far from being as calm as it appeared.
His heart was also dripping blood.
This road, cultivator Xu had led the team back and forth many times, and it had always been uneventful without incident.
But the dangers in the Jade Dragon Mountain were not predictable.
Just like the previous great demon with terrifying strength, who had ever expected to run into such an existence?
The losses of the Mountain Tumbling Association were also heavy!
But cultivator Xu had no shame in his heart.
Because before entering the mountain, he had already made the risks clear to everyone.
One could only recognize their own bad luck if they ran into one!
Everyone couldn’t help but look at each other.
One cultivator gritted his teeth and asked, “Elder Xu, if we continue walking, will we still encounter such a great demon?”
“I can’t guarantee it.”
Cultivator Xu said indifferently, “The Jade Dragon Oath is able to restrain great demons and demon kings, but it cannot guarantee that we will not be attacked by high-level demons 100% of the time.”
Great Demons and Demon Kings could not speak of benevolence and morality, while the Jade Dragon Oath certainly had a strong restraining effect, they could always find a reason to bypass it if they were shameless enough.
For example, accidental injuries, accidental strikes.
The four great sects of the YuanYing true immortal, it is not possible for this “small matter” to find the trouble of the demon kings.
So they could only admit their own bad luck!
Everyone actually understood this reasoning, but they were unwilling to do so, and once again fell into silence.
Cultivator Xu sighed and continued, “Let’s recuperate for three days, three days should be enough time for you to make a decision, whether to continue or return the same way, I have no opinion.”
There were a large number of injured cultivators, and it would not be wise to continue on the road or return now.
No one raised an objection to this.
Although the hearts and minds of the team, inevitably, festered, everyone was able to maintain superficial unity in the face of the cruel reality.
They cleaned up the battlefield, reorganized the team, and then searched for a place to set up camp and recuperate.
Night once again descended on the Jade Dragon Mountain Range.
Darkness, silently enveloping the earth, submerged the temporary camp located in the valley.
Wang Chen hung the obsidian lamp on the tent.
It was already past meal time, but he didn’t have the slightest appetite, and he believed that the other cultivators were the same.
Despite just meeting in passing, gathering together for the same purpose, there was no friendship between them.
Perhaps it was a case of the rabbit dying and the fox grieving.
Seeing so many cultivators of the same rank dead or injured, Wang Chen’s mind could not help but be strongly impacted.
All under the Jindan were ants!
The encounter in the daytime had made him deeply understand the true meaning of this saying.
Taking out a jar of spirit wine from his storage bag, Wang Chen slowly drank it.
Suddenly his tent moved and a delicate figure flashed in.
Wang Chen froze.
This uninvited guest was naturally Li Yi An, and only she would barge right into Wang Duan’s tent like this.
The problem was that tonight’s Li Yi An had even changed into a plain white dress!
As the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, you should be in mourning.
This female cultivator originally possessed a stunning appearance, and now that she had changed out of her men’s clothes and put on a long white skirt, her entire figure, temperament, and even her face value had all been raised a notch!
She sat down beside Wang Chen, her eyes brimming, “Fellow Daoist Wang, it’s not good to drink alone.”
Although the battle during the day had been tragic, Li Yi An had only suffered minor injuries and her face was slightly pale.
Wang Dust shook his head with a bitter smile.
It was not mulled wine that he was drinking.
It’s just that people are not grass and trees can have no mercy, even a YuanYing True Immortal can’t cut off their emotions and extinguish their sex.
His heart was touched and the road ahead was uncertain, which made Wang Chen wonder if he had made the right choice in the first place.
Even if he risked his life through the Jade Dragon Mountain Range through all the hardships, would he definitely be able to find the high person Changchun spoke of in the Western Sea Spiritual Domain, and then embark on the Path to Heaven?
Wang Chen was not at all certain!
The Heaven and Earth Cataclysm did not mean that the living beings would become extinct, and there was a great possibility that staying in the Mountain and Sea Realm could survive the cataclysm.
Maybe staying in Wanxiu City was the best choice in the first place.
“I’ll drink with you.”
Li Yi An probed his hand and took the wine altar, directly drinking a few sips.
He handed it back to Wang Dust again.
Wang Dust took it and also took a big gulp like her.
Just like this, you took a sip and I took a sip, and the altar of spirit wine was drunk clean by the two of them.
“Come!”
Li Yi An took out an altar of Hundred Flower Brew from her own storage bag, “Let’s not get drunk tonight!”
Wang Chen did not refuse.
The Hundred Flower Brew that Li Yi An took out had a taste that was obviously more mellow than the previous one, and he didn’t know how many years it had been stored in the cellar.
The aftertaste was much stronger.
Wang Dust felt something in his heart, so he didn’t deliberately suppress the strength of the wine, and unconsciously got a little bit drunk.
Suddenly, a dark fragrance penetrated his heart.
A ball of soft jade leaned into his arms.
Before Wang Chen reacted, Li Yi An raised his head and put on his lips, and spit out a clove of darkness into the wine.
This wine, sweet as honey, soul and bone!
Wang Chuan drunk again a few points.
Only to hear the arms of the beauty of a gentle smile, in his ear breath like orchids: “Jun can know my heart?”
Wang dust do not know.
Wanted to know.
In a trance, a piece of oral recitation came into his ears.
“This is our sect’s secret Vegetarian Yin Returning Truth and Harmony Secret Technique, which can only be practiced by bodies of pure yang and pure yin.”
As he spoke, Li Yi’an shook his hand and struck out four talismans, which were affixed to the four corners of the tent.
These talismans transmitted a faint light, isolating the sound and breath from inside and outside!
In the next moment, Wang Dust was pushed down onto the carpet.
There was only one thought in his mind.
I was actually pushed against my will!