Another seven or eight days passed by.
On this day, Linlong suddenly opened his eyes and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Over the past few days, he had relied on his understanding of runic matrices to comprehend a sword technique from the runes on the cage.
Although he had never used this sword technique before, he could sense its power from his simulations. Once he used it, the cage and the demon within it would not be able to withstand it at all.
This sword technique was not comprehended out of thin air. It seemed that the sect leader of the Zi Yang Sect had deliberately prepared for a rainy day.
Several hundred years ago, he had been worried that the Yao-Sealing Pagoda might not be able to suppress the demon, so he had fused this sword technique into the runes on the cage.
However, this sword technique was not so easy to activate. First, one had to possess the Zi Yang Divine Sword, then obtain the Luminous Pearl, and finally, the user had to be well-versed in runes and be familiar with some of the operating methods of the Yao-Sealing Pagoda's runic matrices. Otherwise, it would be impossible to activate this sword technique.
Unfortunately, Lin Long fulfilled more than half of these conditions.
Previously, Linlong had not thought much about the demon within the Yao-Sealing Pagoda. His main goal was to obtain the spiritual fire within the pagoda.
However, after comprehending this sword technique, he was a little tempted.
Moreover, he had not the slightest clue about the spiritual fire within the pagoda. Perhaps he would only be able to obtain information about the spiritual fire if he really dealt with this demon.
It was precisely because of this that Linlong decided to activate this sword technique to deal with the demon after some serious consideration.
Even though he would definitely face great danger when dealing with the demon — after all, the demon was many times stronger than him — he did not need to think too much about it now.
After making his decision, Linlong immediately began to silently recite some rune terms. These rune terms were the incantations to leave the Black Cloud Cave, and were naturally comprehended from the runes on the cage.
Hearing Linlong silently recite the rune terms, the demon within the cage was immediately alarmed. It hurriedly mobilized its demonic aura to deal with Linlong.
With a thought, the surging demonic aura immediately transformed into a giant palm that grabbed at the nearby Linlong. However, just as its palm reached Linlong, the powerful energy from the chain immediately rebounded.
The giant palm formed from demonic aura was directly deflected into boundless demonic aura.
"Damn it!" As the demon cursed, Linlong had already disappeared in a flash of white light.
Seeing Lin Long leave, the Fiendish Demon's face immediately became cloudy.
"This won't do. This brat has probably comprehended something from these runes. If it's something left behind by that old fart, Xuanyangzi, then it'll be terrible. I have to send an even more powerful clone to kill him and prevent any future troubles. I even have to obtain the Bright Yang Pearl!"
The demon seemed to have made a very important decision. In the next moment, the roiling demonic aura around him gathered once again. Then, a very quickly, a person that looked exactly the same as him appeared within the demonic aura.
When this person appeared, the fiendish demon's expression immediately became extremely ugly. His cultivation seemed to have been greatly damaged in an instant.
"This doppelganger consumed a third of this prince's cultivation. I don't know how many times stronger it is compared to the previous two doppelgangers. I don't believe that I can't kill you, brat!" The demon's face was sinister.
His tone was extremely ethereal, as if he had emerged from the ground.
After that, the clone flashed several times and actually emerged from the seemingly boundless defensive cage.
After that, the clone flashed several times and actually burrowed out of the seemingly endless defensive cage.
Then, with a leap, he disappeared into the darkness of the endless desert.
After the doppelganger disappeared, the demon's expression became unsightly. Not only that, his entire person immediately became extremely old. Earlier, he still looked young, but now he looked like a middle-aged man in his fifties.
The reason for this was that he had once again sacrificed a fifth of his cultivation to open a path to the outside world. Otherwise, his clone would not have been able to leave the Black Cloud Cave so easily.
Sacrificing one's cultivation naturally brought endless damage to his main body's soul.
However, for the sake of killing Linlong and obtaining the Luminous Pearl, he no longer hesitated.
...
With a flash of white light, Linlong's body appeared in a valley. What made him speechless was that his divine will and profound energy had disappeared without a trace.
Moreover, he did not appear at the entrance of the Black Cloud Cave. Instead, he appeared in this nameless valley.
Naturally, he did not think that Ah Ying and the others were still waiting for him. What made him feel helpless was that because he had appeared in this nameless valley and his divine will had disappeared, he would have to spend a lot of effort to find the tribe.
Although he felt somewhat helpless, Linlong could only take a step forward in the direction that he thought was right.
Naturally, he was going to the tribe for the Luminous Pearl because it was in the hands of the people in the tribe.
Linlong still did not know what the Bright Yang Bead was, as there was not much information about it from the runes on the cage.
...
In one of the houses in the tribe, Ah Ying looked at the scenery outside the window with a slightly disappointed expression.
After waiting for more than ten days, when they had used up all their food and medicine, Ah Ying and the others had no choice but to return to the tribe. However, more than a month had passed, but there was still no news of the mister in her heart. This naturally made her anxious.
I hope that mister is not trapped in the Black Cloud Cave. Ah Ying secretly prayed in her heart.
Suddenly, the sound of people running in panic and screaming came from outside.
Ah Ying hurriedly ran out of the room and stopped a woman, asking, "Auntie, what's wrong?"
The woman said with a panicked expression, "Outside... there are many Dark Rats outside, many... many people have died. Ah Ying, quickly run."
"Auntie, you go with them first." After saying this, Ah Ying quickly climbed up to the roof of her house.
Looking at the place where the shouting was the loudest, Ah Ying's expression immediately changed. Because there, there was a large group of Dark Rats surrounding more than ten of the tribe's warriors.
Behind these warriors were the people of the tribe who were crying and running over.
What was going on? Why were there so many Dark Rats? Could it be that the people who were chased into the Black Cloud Cave had come out again?
Just as she was thinking about whether she should go over to help, a few more people ran over. These people were the tribe's warriors. Their bodies were covered in blood, and the person in the middle was carrying an old man who seemed to be heavily injured.
Ah Ying took a closer look and realized that the old man was none other than her grandfather.
She hurriedly ran down from the roof and anxiously shouted, "Grandfather... What happened to grandfather?"
"Grandfather is heavily injured. Ah Ying, quickly come with us to the cave and find an opportunity to save grandfather." One of the people saw Ah Ying and said with a face full of joy.
"Okay." Ah Ying nodded her head heavily. However, she did not immediately follow behind these people. Instead, she returned to her room and took some medicine and tools before running out again towards the direction of the cave.
The cave was not far away. It was only a hundred zhang away from the tribe. It was an extremely sealed and sturdy place that the tribe used to hide from disasters.
Before they left the tribe, the ten warriors who went out to hunt returned from another direction.
They naturally saw the panicked scene and immediately asked anxiously, "There are more than a hundred Dark Rats surrounding our tribe.
"There are more than a hundred Dark Rats surrounding and attacking our tribe. Ah Chong is leading a dozen or so warriors to hold them off, but the situation is getting worse, because there aren't just these hundred Dark Rats, but more and more …"
"In order to protect the lifeline of the tribe, we can only hide in the cave. As for Ah Chong and the rest, we can only sacrifice them …"
Someone replied with a sad expression.
"Is Brother Ah Chong over there? No, I have to go and help. "
In an instant, a few people wanted to rush in that direction, but they were stopped by the few people who were covered in blood.
"It's too late to go now. You guys are just going to die!" Someone shouted.
It was also at this moment that a dozen Dark Rats suddenly scuttled over. The eyes of these Dark Rats were bloodshot and they were abnormally violent. When they saw the people, they immediately pounced on them.
Even though they were so ferocious, under the combined efforts of the people, they were quickly wiped out.
Just as they heaved a sigh of relief, their expressions changed again. It was obvious that there was another wave of Dark Rats coming from that direction. Furthermore, there were more of them than before.
"Let's go! If we don't leave now, it will be too late!"
Amidst such shouts, they hurriedly retreated towards the cave.
Half a quarter of an hour later, after defending against a few waves of Dark Mice's attacks, they finally arrived at the location of the cave without any mishaps.
After entering the cave, which was easy to defend and hard to attack, they all heaved a sigh of relief.
After heaving a sigh of relief, their expressions became solemn again, because they were clearly the last batch of people to arrive at the cave. As for the others who did not arrive at the cave at this time, there was a high chance that they would not be able to survive.
This was because they could already see wave after wave of Dark Rats surging in their direction.
"Ah Long, go and see how many people in the tribe have arrived. Then, go and help your Sister Ah Ying." A seven feet tall muscular man holding a saber stained with the blood of Dark Rats said to Ah Long.
This muscular man was called Ah Bu. He was a warrior with strength similar to Ah Chong. Now that Ah Chong wasn't around and the elder was injured, he could only shoulder the responsibility of leading the tribe to survive.
"Big Brother Ah Bu, I want to stay here and kill these Dark Rats." Ah Long looked at the Dark Rats that were pouncing over and said with a determined expression.
"Ah Long, you have plenty of opportunities. Now, be obedient and go in to help your Sister Ah Ying." Ah Bu's expression immediately became solemn.
"Yes!" Seeing Ah Bu's expression, Ah Long didn't dare to disobey and quickly nodded.
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