"Wait a minute!" As expected, Zhen Yuan called out to her, and said with a troubled look. "Fellow daoist, my shop indeed doesn't have the rules of bartering. Why don't we do this? Why don't you head to the back hall to rest first. After I ask my boss, I will give you a reply? "
"Alright." Zhu Yao happily agreed. Following Zhen Yuan, they arrived at a courtyard after several turns, and sat next to a stone table.
After Zhen Yuan instructed her with a few words, he retreated. Zhu Yao sat for exactly an hour, and in the middle, a person who looked like a waitress came to serve tea and snacks. After that, there were no other movements. Zhu Yao faintly felt that something was amiss, and just as she was about to stand up and ask someone.
Suddenly, the formation beneath her feet shone brightly, and a large number of vines emerged, instantly binding her tightly.
What's with this situation?
"You human practitioners are really stupid." Zhen Yuan suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and looked at her with a complacent smile. On his shoulder stood a little demonic beast that looked like a rat and a bird. He waved his hand. "Hand it over."
That demonic beast instantly turned into a flash, and returned to Zhen Yuan's shoulder in an instant. Its mouth, however, was biting onto her storage pouch.
The hell, so this was a black shop.
Zhen Yuan took the storage pouch, and weighed it in his hand. "If you're sensible, then take the initiative to remove the imprint on this storage pouch. I will then let you die a little more painlessly."
"Just who are you?" Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Why is that mystic artifact used to seal the Devil in your hands?"
"Me?" The man smiled. "You dare to barge into Illusory Realm Island, yet you don't know who I am?"
"Illusory Realm Island?" Zhu Yao was startled.
"There's actually someone who doesn't know of Illusory Realm Island." Zhen Yuan's smile grew even deeper. With a wave of his hand, the small courtyard that was still fresh and elegant earlier, as though it was fading away, began to change. The stone table turned into a stone covered in moss, and the trees turned into man-eating flowers with their bloody mouths wide open.
And those houses had all disappeared, turning into a dense forest.
"How is this possible?" Zhu Yao widened her eyes. Though she had suppressed her cultivation, her divine sense had always been paying attention to her surroundings. She actually did not realize that everything was an illusion.
Zhen Yuan coldly laughed. "When you appeared in the sky, I had already noticed you. The moment you land, you will definitely be struck by my illusion art. "
"What's up with those human cultivators?" She clearly saw so many people on the street, and each of them had a different cultivation base and appearance. She also said to someone that if it was just an illusion, it was impossible to imitate something like spiritual power.
"They are all true human practitioners, and not illusions." Zhen Yuan patted his clothes without a care in the world.
"…" A true human cultivator!
"That's why I say you human cultivators are too stupid. You clearly know that this sea region is dangerous, yet you still deliver yourself to us." Zhen Yuan gave her a disdainful look. "The moment they heard that there was a treasure being auctioned here, they all rushed over like a swarm of bees. Thus, I casually made up this illusion, and had them experience the day of the auction over and over again, trapping them in this illusion forever. After they die, even their souls would not be able to escape. This way, everything they have will be mine. "
It turned out that those people were the souls of the deceived practitioners and the entities condensed by the illusions. No wonder her spiritual awareness couldn't detect anything unusual.
"I wanted to use the same method to deal with you. Unfortunately, your luck isn't good, and you just had to refuse to go to the auction. If you don't enter the formation core, my illusion won't be able to deal with you, so I had no choice but to personally snatch it. "
"You trapped so many practitioners, just to snatch their mystic tools and mystic treasures?"
He lowered his head to look at the storage pouch in his hands, and kept it. "Who asked you to have so many treasures? I have seen it. Back then, when you were flying on your sword, you were using a peak grade seventh rank mystic tool. Although there are many seventh rank mystic tools, peak grade mystic tools are extremely rare. Since you've already delivered yourself to me, how can I miss it? "
"I don't think so!" Zhu Yao looked straight at him. No wait, it's it! "The reason you trapped these practitioners, is most likely to absorb their life force, right?"
Zhen Yuan was startled, a hint of panic flashed past his eyes, and he suddenly said angrily. "A bunch of nonsense. How can I possibly be interested in the life force of humans?"
"Is that so?" Zhu Yao coldly laughed. "Earlier, you mentioned us human practitioners twice, which proves that you're basically not human. And no matter if it's demons, spirits, or beasts, mystic tools are completely useless against them. You trapped so many human practitioners, isn't it to absorb their life force to raise your cultivation? Could it be that you're raising them for fun? "
His expression sank, and killing intent flashed in his eyes. In an instant, he materialized a few icicles and threw them towards her. "Although you know, I can't let you live."
With a twist of her hand, Zhu Yao summoned a ball of fire. In an instant, the vines that were entangling her were turned into ashes, and even the icicles that were flying closer, under the high temperature, turned into water and evaporated.
"You didn't eat those snacks?" His face was filled with shock.
"Snacks?" Zhu Yao recalled for a moment, and only then did she recall that the person who looked like a prostitute had served them. "Is that poisonous? I'm sorry, it's been a long time since I've eaten anything other than the food my master made, because it's too hard to eat. "Her stomach had long been pampered.
"…" The corner of Zhen Yuan's lips twitched, as he was showered with a loving expression.
"Hmph, so what if you can use mystic arts? You're still going to die here today."
He coldly snorted. His robes fluttered without any wind, and his hair began to fly wildly as well. His cultivation, which was merely at the Foundation stage earlier, suddenly began to rise explosively. Azoth Core, Nascent Soul, and actually broke through to the Demigod stage. In the end, it stopped at the early stages of Demigod. Evidently, he had concealed his cultivation earlier. In an instant, the pressure of a Demigod filled the entire island.
"An Azoth human practitioner, let's see what you're going to use to fight against me."
"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao sighed, and released the suppression on her own cultivation as well. The pressure of a Demigod human practitioner, was immediately pushed back.
"Y-Y-Y-Y-You …" His face was filled with shock. "How's that possible? You too."
"Hoho, I know how to conceal my cultivation as well." Zhu Yao's hands moved. Raising her hand, she summoned her own spiritual sword, and then slashed it over. "Enough nonsense. If you want to fight, then come at me!"
Only then did Zhen Yuan regain his senses. In a flash, he dodged her attack, and in the next moment, thousands of tree vines drilled out from the ground, entangling towards Zhu Yao. Zhu Yao dodged in a flash, but those vines seemed to have eyes of their own, as they followed her wherever she flew to.
Zhu Yao had no choice but to fly higher and higher, as she cast an art to summon flames to burn those vines. However, just as she burned one, even more came pouncing over. In a moment of carelessness, her right leg was entangled by a tiny vine. She turned around and slashed it with her sword.
In an instant, it exploded. Zhu Yao simply felt a sharp pain on her leg, as a large amount of venom flowed out from the flower bud. Half of her pants were completely corroded. She hurriedly summoned spiritual flames to burn that half of the vine, yet, she was still injured. Her leg was dyed red, and it really f * cking hurt.
"It's useless. You definitely don't possess the Fire Spirit Vein. Your flames are basically unable to keep up with the growth speed of these vines." Zhen Yuan smiled arrogantly, looking as though victory was within his grasp.
Zhu Yao was instantly enraged. "Momma's egg, you can burn anything, but you actually have to burn my clothes! Master isn't by my side, this old lady only has this set of clothes to keep up appearances, yet you still want to burn it! "Her fury instantly rose, and in an instant, she was so furious that she wanted to chop someone up.
She no longer cared about the plants and flowers, as she immediately cast an art and cast Heavenly Descent. In an instant, thousands of lightning bolts came pouncing down, blasting the entire island until it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
Zhen Yuan was instantly dumbfounded, as he simply could not believe his own eyes. "You … Y-You, you're lightning …"
"It's too late to know now!" Zhu Yao waved her hand, and an especially thick lightning bolt charged straight at him. It struck right onto its target.
The vines around Zhen Yuan instantly turned into charred ashes, and they instantly fell from the sky. With a 'puuu' sound, he puked out a large mouthful of blood. His eyes darkened, as he suddenly cast a wind-type art. Blowing up the sand on the ground, he then blew it towards Zhu Yao.
In a flash, he turned into a ray of green light, and was about to head towards the horizon.
You want to run!?
Zhu Yao erected a defensive barrier to block the incoming sand. At the same time, she swung the spiritual sword in her hand, turning it into a long whip formed from lightning bolts. In an instant, it coiled around that ray of green light. With a swing of her hand, she forcefully pulled it back, and it fell onto the ground.
A few bolts of lightning descended, and he completely lost the strength to retaliate.
"St … Stop!" Zhen Yuan no longer had the arrogance he had before, as he shouted for her to stop with a flustered look. Raising an item in his hand, he loudly said. "Let me go, otherwise … Otherwise, I will destroy this mystic artifact."
In his hand, he was holding onto the fan which had a portion of the Devil sealed within.
"Don't come over, otherwise, I will destroy it!"
Zhu Yao stopped, and frowned.
Zhen Yuan was joyous, as he thought that this threat was effective. "Didn't you come here to find this? Don't force me into a life and death struggle! "
The moment his voice fell, a ray of white light shone next to him. An item flew out from the storage pouch he snatched from Zhu Yao earlier.
"Chick ~ ~ ~ ~" A resounding sound resounded.
He simply felt his hand burning, and he subconsciously loosened his grip. In the next moment, that fan had already flown into Zhu Yao's hands.
"Good job!" Zhu Yao caught the fan and the Metal Spirit that flew over.
"Chick chick, chick chick …" The Metal Spirit happily rolled around in her palm. Being praised, it was so happy, so happy.
When Zhen Yuan saw that both escaping and threatening were useless, his face instantly turned green. Gritting his teeth, he did not know what he did, but his entire body began to emit out a green glow, and even the entire island began to tremble. The ground which was still charred black earlier, began to emit out a large amount of thorns. The long green thorns emitted a cold glint, and they were even dripping with purple liquid. Large and terrifying man-eating flowers drilled out from the ground, and with their mouths wide open, they looked as though they could choose their prey at any moment.
Zhu Yao had no choice but to fly into the sky, only to see that Zhen Yuan's entire body was already surrounded by a green glow, and its size was growing larger. In an instant, it had already occupied a sixth of the island. It seemed like he had already thrown caution to the wind, and was planning to fight her to the death. Now, he wanted to reveal his true form.
As expected, a quarter of an hour later, the green glow dimmed, and a gigantic demonic beast the size of a building appeared on the ground. It looked very much like a gigantic toad, and its four limbs were crawling on the ground. However, on its back, there was a gigantic purple bud, and it was even faintly emitting out poisonous gas. This appearance, was a little similar to an object she had seen in cartoons in the past, the Wondrous Frog Seed.
However, this one was a little uglier.
It opened its mouth and spat out a mouthful of poisonous gas, and the entire island was covered in a purple poisonous gas.
Zhu Yao once again cast an art, summoning countless Heavenly Daos, instantly dispersing the poisonous gas. However, the flower bud on the back of the demonic beast suddenly opened, turning into several vines that swung towards her. These were completely different from the vines from before. This time, they were evidently much faster, and she was having a hard time dodging them.
Just as she dodged one, another one came swinging straight at her, striking straight onto her defensive barrier. She even felt a pain in her chest, as though it was about to shatter. Zhu Yao tightened her grip on the sword in her hand, and in an instant, purple lightning filled the entire sword's body.
With a wave of her hand, she sliced off one of the vines, and then, she turned around, wanting to dodge the remaining ones. However, a beast's roar suddenly sounded from behind her.
"Croak …"
"…"
As expected, it's still a frog!
A black figure instantly pressed down from above her head. Zhu Yao's heart clenched, yet, she realized that she had nowhere to retreat to. That gigantic frog was pressing down, and she had already made preparations to summon her sword intent. Just as that demonic beast was about to come closer, and was about to squash her into a meat patty.
That gigantic figure suddenly tilted, and with a plop, it landed next to her feet. As though it was possessed, it rubbed against her feet with an intoxicated look, and called out.
"Meow …"
Zhu Yao: …
What the hell was going on?
Zhen Yuan who had transformed into a gigantic frog was startled as well. With a swoosh, it fiercely leapt a few steps back. It looked at her with a terrified look, as though it did not understand why it was acting abnormally earlier. "You … What mystic art did you use on me earlier?"
"…" Like hell she knew. Evidently, you were the one who went crazy, right?
The situation after that, was developing in a strange direction. Zhen Yuan who had transformed into a demonic beast, seemed to have suddenly activated some sort of hidden attribute. As long as its beastial body approached her, it would mysteriously turn into an infatuated beast in a second. It would meow in all sorts of ways, begging to be petted and hugged like a monkey begging for survival.
However, in the next moment, it would regain its senses, and then, it would leap away regretfully.
Going back and forth like this, it would never get tired of it, as though its spirit had been split.
Zhu Yao: …
She turned to look at this beast that was constantly running back and forth.
First, it approached her. Meow meow meow …
Then, it ran a few steps away. You beast, what did you do to me …
She was panting for it.
This situation, why did she feel that it was a little similar to the World Favourable Impression ability from before? However, the effective range seemed to have shrunk. However, back then, when she was in her human form, such a situation did not happen either.
Could it be that it was only effective against beast-shaped demonic beasts?
Wait a minute. Back then, when she was squashed to death by that stupid dragon, she seemed … seemed … probably … did not turn off the World Favourable Impression ability.
Then …
She suddenly felt that her entire being was unwell.
"Meow ~ ~ ~ I beg for a pat. I beg for my fur to be smoothed out, alright?" The Ingenious Frog Seed was about to rub against her body.
The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. You don't even have fur, alright? Smoothing my ass! She did not like toads in the slightest, alright? Especially one that emitted poisonous gas!
Zhu Yao gritted her teeth!
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