Half an hour later, Lu Ye had lost 30 rounds in a row.
It would be strange if he could win. The dice cup in Liu Sanbao's hand was a spirit artifact. The size of the dice cup was all up to him.
Listening carefully, the noise outside had gradually subsided. Feeling that it was about time, he stood up and said, "I admit defeat."
He turned and walked out.
Liu Sanbao just stood there and looked at him with a smile.
Lu Ye came to the door and looked out through the gap. The street was deserted and there was not a single person. He raised his hand to open the door, but he could not open it. There was no lock on the door, but it seemed to be locked by an invisible force.
Spirit energy surged in his eyes, and the Insight Spirit Tattoo quickly took shape.
Under the enhancement of Insight, Lu Ye immediately saw that the entire room was covered by a layer of array, making the whole room into an airtight whole. If he wanted to leave, he had to break the array first.
Things were not so simple.
He looked around, wanting to try to break the array here. After learning the way of spirit tattoos from Madam Yun for so long, he still had some understanding of how to break arrays.
The array here was not considered complicated. Given enough time, he should be able to break it.
However, he could not be disturbed. Liu Sanbao would definitely not let him break the array in peace.
He slowly walked back and stood in front of the gambling table. Lu Ye's fingers touched the hilt of his saber as he looked at the smiling Liu Sanbao.
"Open the array, I want to leave here!"
Liu Sanbao smiled and shook his head. "That won't do. Little friend Lu, our bet is not over yet."
"How far is it over?"
"That depends on how much you bet. When you have nothing left to lose, the bet will naturally be over." Speaking up to this point, he laughed mischievously. "To a true gambler, anything can be used as a stake, including … life!"
"Understood." Lu Ye nodded. "Then let's bet on your life. You can bet whether I can … chop you to death!"
When the last three words fell, Lu Ye had already crossed the gambling table. He unsheathed his saber and slashed at Liu Sanbao with the enhancement of the Sharpness Spirit Tattoo.
The smile on Liu Sanbao's face did not diminish, as if he had already known that Lu Ye would make such a choice. Facing this knife, he did not dodge at all and instead gently patted the dice cup in his hand, sending a die straight towards Lu Ye's face.
With a clink, the Pan Mountain Saber struck the die. The huge impact caused Lu Ye's body to lean back slightly, and his speed to slow down.
The other two dice also flew out, one on the left and one on the right.
"Roar!" The sound of a tiger's roar resounded, and a visible wave of air rushed forward.
At the same time, Yiyi flashed out from within Hu Po's body. She raised her hand and cast a spell at Liu Sanbao.
The smile on Liu Sanbao's face suddenly froze. His entire spirit body was slightly dazed by Hu Po's roar.
The two dice flying towards Lu Ye immediately lost control and were sent flying by Lu Ye's two slashes.
In the next moment, Yiyi's spell landed on Liu Sanbao's body, sending his round body flying and crashing heavily to the ground.
Liu Sanbao's dazed expression regained its clarity. When he raised his eyes, he was met with a pair of amber eyes. Those eyes seemed to have the power to steal one's soul. Under the gaze of those eyes, Liu Sanbao felt panic and unease that he had not felt for countless years.
"This is …"
Hu Po, who had returned to his original form, opened his mouth wide and sucked in a mouthful of Liu Sanbao as if he were swallowing the blood veins on his scales.
Liu Sanbao's spirit body was visibly twisting, and his chest was bulging. From the looks of it, he was about to be swallowed into Hu Po's stomach.
Lu Ye looked at this scene in astonishment. Before he made his move, he did not expect Hu Po to have such an ability. Originally, he only wanted to kill Liu Sanbao and quickly escape from this place. However, after he made his move, he realized that Hu Po was suppressing Liu Sanbao.
This kind of suppression was not targeted at Liu Sanbao, but at the spirit body!
Hu Po had once transformed Yiyi into a nightmare spirit, so it had some unknown talent in this regard. If it were not for the fact that they had coincidentally entered Immortal Essence City this time, Lu Ye would not have realized this.
"No!" Liu Sanbao screamed in horror and did his best to resist Hu Po's devouring. Even though there was a large gap in strength between them, this feeling of facing a natural enemy made him unable to display his full strength. This was a fear that came from the depths of his soul.
Lu Ye slashed at Liu Sanbao with his blade.
Liu Sanbao's resistance immediately weakened by a lot.
Lu Ye slashed again.
Liu Sanbao's resistance weakened even more. His entire body was folded by the irresistible suction and pulled into Hu Po's bloody mouth.
"Save me, I was wrong!" Liu Sanbao reached out to Lu Ye with a pleading expression.
With a whoosh, Liu Sanbao disappeared. Hu Po burped, and the surface of its body flickered with light.
Lu Ye and Yiyi looked at each other in amazement. They had thought that it would be a bitter battle, but who would have thought that it would end like this?
Hu Po's suppression of spirit bodies was simply too fierce.
"Is there any change in Hu Po?" Lu Ye asked.
Hu Po had never shown this kind of talent before, mainly because he had never encountered any other spirit bodies before, so he had never had the chance to display it.
Yiyi sensed it for a moment before shaking her head, "No … something's wrong!"
Lu Ye's heart tightened.
Yiyi rushed into Hu Po's body, and when she came out again, she actually pulled out another spirit body from Hu Po's body.
Lu Ye took a closer look and clicked his tongue in amazement, because this spirit body was none other than Liu Sanbao, who had just been swallowed by Hu Po.
[So he wasn't eaten …]
Anyone who saw the scene just now would have thought that Liu Sanbao had been eaten by Hu Po, but now it seemed that Hu Po hadn't done so to eat this spirit body, but to transform it into his own Nightmare Spirit.
However, Liu Sanbao's Nightmare Spirit was very different from Yiyi's.
Yiyi had her own sentience, while Liu Sanbao's expression was dull, without any trace of cunning.
Moreover, Liu Sanbao's strength had also changed. Originally, he was a Seventh Order Heaven Grade master, but now, he was only an ordinary Ninth Order cultivator. Lu Ye didn't know if it was because he had been slashed a few times just now.
"Can you control him?" Lu Ye asked again.
Hu Po tilted his head and thought for a moment before a light flashed on the surface of his body. Then, the dull Liu Sanbao slowly moved. At first, he was like a puppet, but soon, he became flexible. He even picked up the Spirit Artifact dice cup that he had dropped on the ground before running to the gambling table and shaking it, shouting loudly, "Big on the left, small on the right, leave after you place your bets!"
Yiyi slapped Hu Po's head, "Don't be so naughty!"
Hu Po whimpered, feeling wronged. This wasn't under his control, he just gave Liu Sanbao a simple order, and Liu Sanbao acted on his own. A gambler would always be a gambler, even if he had turned into a Nightmare Spirit, it couldn't erase his gambling instincts.
"How many Nightmare Spirits can you control?" Lu Ye asked again.
Hu Po whimpered again, and Yiyi answered for him, "I'm not sure, we'll have to try to find out."
Lu Ye suddenly had a bold idea in his heart.
"Let's go find the Immortal Yuan Guardians."
He asked Hu Po to order Liu Sanbao to open the magic formation in the room, and soon, the group left.
The chaotic situation in the city had calmed down a lot. Previously, when hundreds of cultivators fell into the Immortal Yuan City, the situation was chaotic, and dozens of people were unlucky enough to be arrested by the Immortal Yuan Guardians and sent to the dungeon.
At this moment, the Immortal Yuan Guardians were also searching the city for cultivators. Once they found them, there would be no shortage of confrontations.
The cultivators began to contact their friends and family, forming groups. In this damned place, if they were discovered by the Immortal Yuan Guardians when they were alone, they wouldn't have a good ending. Not only did the Immortal Yuan Guardians have a good cultivation base, but they could also use a spell similar to Spirit Binding Chains. This spell was specially used to capture people. As long as one was bound by a Spirit Binding Chain, there would be three or four more. No matter how strong you were, you would have to obediently submit.
This led to a very strange phenomenon. At present, whether it was the Grand Heaven Alliance or the Myriad Devil Ridge, if they met face to face when they were alone, they would no longer be hostile to each other. At most, they would just brush past each other. Because everyone knew that fighting in this place was really harmful to others without benefiting themselves, it was more important to meet up with them first.
Due to the environment of the Immortal Yuan City, there were no rare flowers or herbs to be collected. However, some good things could be found in the buildings occasionally, provided that they avoided the Immortal Yuan Guardians.
Somewhere in the city, the sound of fierce fighting was constantly heard. Several cultivators who were traveling in groups were discovered by a group of Immortal Yuan Guardians, and they were fighting fiercely.
The situation was not optimistic. Two of the four cultivators had been tied up, and the remaining two were still fighting like caged beasts. It seemed that they wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
At this moment, the Immortal Yuan Guardians' team leader suddenly turned his head and looked in a direction, only to see a person's figure appear there, looking in their direction.
"How dare you!" The Immortal Yuan Guardians' team leader shouted angrily, and with a move of his body, he attacked.
That figure turned around and ran away. One chased while the other fled, and soon disappeared.
After a short while, a tiger's roar came from that direction, and then … there was no more.
In the alley, Lu Ye looked at the dumbfounded Immortal Yuan Guardians' team leader in front of him with satisfaction. This team leader's strength was almost the same as Liu Sanbao's. After he was led here, Hu Po suppressed him, and Lu Ye slashed him a few times. Then, he was swallowed by Hu Po and turned into a Bi Spirit.
Now, his strength was equivalent to the Ninth Order, the same as Liu Sanbao.
After a while, Lu Ye and the team leader returned to the place where the fierce battle had just taken place. Lu Ye was in front, and the team leader was behind him. It seemed that the team leader was escorting Lu Ye.
Several Immortal Yuan Guardians were still waiting. Four cultivators were tied up on the ground, and all of them looked as if their parents had died.
Seeing Lu Ye being 'escorted' back, one of them glanced at him, thinking that he was another person who had suffered the same fate. But when he took a closer look, he felt that something was wrong. Lu Ye wasn't tied up, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes in confusion.
Lu Ye had been paying attention to the Immortal Yuan Guardians, and when he got closer, he saw that they were also standing in place like wooden stakes. He immediately understood that these Immortal Yuan Guardians had no thoughts of their own. They were different from the team leaders, who at least had some intelligence and knew how to judge the situation. Ordinary Immortal Yuan Guardians didn't have this ability, and they were basically following the orders of the team leaders.
This could be seen from the fact that they didn't even look at Lu Ye.
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