Chapter 322: Massive Demons, Brother Zhao Shang

The entire cavern instantly exploded. In this deep underground location, the Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley suddenly unleashed a powerful offensive divine ability.

Wang Yu, who was hiding behind them, felt helpless. He could only activate his Purple Dragon Earth Travel technique, allowing his body to move through the rocks, and shoot upwards.

As the Wind King Sword completely destroyed the cavern, the Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley had vanished. Blood was pooling in the cracks of the shattered rock, indicating that the demon had not been killed.

Yet, they had given up.

This situation startled Wang Yu slightly, and he quickly realized he had been discovered—even before he used his Earth Travel technique!

Otherwise, they wouldn't have unleashed such a wide-range divine ability.

"I underestimated them. It must have been because of that drop of blood. I was careless…" Wang Yu muttered helplessly to himself, then stopped concealing his presence.

His vast spiritual sense spread rapidly like a spiderweb. Stealth failed? Then he would fight them openly. Half of the secret of this place had already been exposed.

There was no reason for him to give up now.

"And this blood slave demon." His thoughts instantly cleared. Wang Yu opened his mouth and exhaled, unleashing the Ice Chi Elixir Flame, which surged forth, quickly forming an ice-flame blue dragon along the path of the original cavern tunnel.

This was precisely a high-grade Tier 3 spell—the Ice Dragon Technique!

The shattered rock debris was incinerated to ash, and large sections of ice crystals reformed a passage. The Blood Shadow Demon, which had been recovering, suddenly suffered from the burning pain of the elixir flame.

It immediately let out a mournful howl. Its blood evaporated in the high temperature, then froze into shattered ice at low temperatures, making it impossible for vitality to regenerate.

This showed that blood-based powers were actually suppressed by the Ice Chi Elixir Flame, making it almost impossible for any resistance to form amidst its destruction.

Repeated destruction also reduced the vitality of its blood, which was somewhat of an unexpected bonus.

Once the passage was fully formed, Wang Yu stepped forward.

The Glazed Ice Heart Pagoda appeared, and with the Ice Chain Soul Binding Spell, it tore the Blood Shadow Demon into tiny blood spheres, until the deeply hidden Myriad Spirit Blood Essence revealed its true form.

Wang Yu grinned, and black paper boats surged forth from between his eyebrows.

He used the Soul-Extracting Evil Boat Spell to completely destroy its will and mutated soul.

In this way, the connection between the core and the body was severed.

The tiny blood spheres instantly lost their vitality, falling to the ground and quickly turning black and foul-smelling. This Blood Shadow Demon had been completely eliminated by Wang Yu.

"Its weaknesses are fire and ice. Spiritual sense attacks can completely kill this type of monster." All these characteristics seemed tailor-made for him; his cultivation system perfectly countered these demons.

Wang Yu continued to form hand seals.

Black ice condensed in his hand, forming a miniature ice coffin, three fingers wide and palm-sized. This was the secret technique: Ice Coffin Seal!

Having witnessed the situation at the Heavenly Soul Sect ruins, he was highly cautious of this treasure called Myriad Spirit Blood Essence, as it could coalesce into a blood-corpse giant.

He decided to seal it for now. If he truly wanted to use it, he would need to conduct multiple tests and trials to confirm that its will had been completely erased before daring to consume and refine it.

After completing the seal, the small ice coffin was naturally stored in his Sea Heart Ring.

With a flash of aurora, Wang Yu's figure instantly vanished. Among Core Formation cultivators, very few could match his speed, and this did not include the Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley.

Meanwhile, the two sisters, who had destroyed the passage with the Wind King Sword, were still conversing as they fled.

The younger sister, Feng Niaoniao, asked in confusion, "Sister, why did we retreat? With our combined strength, couldn't we defeat that person...?"

"I'm not sure." Although the two were twins, their personalities were completely opposite. The elder sister was calm and cautious, prioritizing stability in everything.

The younger sister, however, was much bolder, possessing an extraordinary pride, and was a person with considerable self-esteem.

"Whether they are strong or weak, we would only know after a battle. Late-Tier 3 demons are already rare here."

"If we could collect a few more drops of Myriad Spirit Blood Essence of that caliber, breaking through to the late Core Formation stage would be no problem. It's such a pity."

Hearing this, the elder sister shook her head.

"That person's breath-concealing secret technique is truly clever, and they deliberately used blood to attract the demon, clearly bearing ill will towards us."

"If we had gotten entangled with the demon, that hidden person might have seized the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. Don't risk losing the big picture for something small. Don't forget where we are."

At these words, Feng Niaoniao immediately lost her desire to fight.

But then she heard her sister continue.

"Use the Wind Spirit Body secret technique to leave some hidden traces, luring that person elsewhere. After we've harvested this place, we'll leave immediately."

"Alright~"

The Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley simultaneously formed hand seals. Gentle breezes blew out from their bodies, transforming into two identical clones, which immediately flew in opposite directions under their mental command.

This was an extremely rare temporary clone secret technique. The Wind Spirit clones deliberately left hidden wind traces and faint scents along their paths, like a woman's natural fragrance, which could be detected with careful observation.

"Let's go!"

Shortly after, although Wang Yu was a step behind, his speed and the vastness of his spiritual sense allowed for an extremely wide detection range, coupled with the efficiency of the Heavenly Soul Sect's secret techniques.

He arrived at the location just as the two women had left.

After a brief assessment, he pursued them directly along the correct path with almost no hesitation; their deceptive tactics were too crude.

However, to prevent them from playing reverse psychology, he still sent out his Thunder Corpse to pursue in the opposite direction. With the Thunder Corpse's stronger offensive power, it would be sufficient to hold its own if an encounter battle occurred.

Half an incense stick's time later, Wang Yu's main body arrived before a wall and paused, startled. The path ahead was a dead end. He couldn't help but frown, "Are they really using reverse psychology?" Then, "—No!"

Activating his Qi-Gazing Golden Eyes secret technique, a blood-red terrestrial qi pathway extended deep into the wall. Wang Yu then brought out his Feng Shui Compass. After a quick calculation, he immediately understood.

"A multi-layered Illusion Formation!"

He had much experience with both clone secret techniques and illusion formations, and had developed countermeasures. He mentally controlled the Thunder Corpse to quickly return.

The Feng Shui Compass continuously spun, accurately calculating the steps needed to break the formation. Half an incense stick's time later, he recalled the approaching Thunder Corpse.

Wang Yu walked in a strange pattern, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, finally stopping in front of the stone wall.

A normal person would have surely walked forward, thinking the stone wall was a mere illusion, but it was not.

With a light leap, Wang Yu vanished as if a fish diving into water.

He merged into the stone wall from above. In an instant, the world seemed to turn upside down. He stood firmly on the ground of a hidden space, and before his eyes were countless demons!

Most were Tier 1 and Tier 2 Blood Slave Demons.

Only a few had reached Tier 3. The Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley were each wielding their Wind King Swords, extensively harvesting the demons in this place.

A clean white jade bottle hovered beside each of them, serving as their container for collecting Myriad Spirit Blood Essence.

"He's caught up!"

"How is that possible?!"

The moment Wang Yu spotted the two sisters, they naturally also discovered him. The instant their gazes met, the elder sister made a decisive choice.

"—Fight!"

Hearing this, Feng Niaoniao immediately smiled.

"We should have fought long ago! This sneaky rogue, daring to spy on our Feng clan of the Secluded Valley, is asking for death…"

Wang Yu wasn't familiar with them, so he had no intention of trash-talking. This time, his Aurora Escape Technique transformed into a yellow light, and he deliberately infused it with the aura of the Yellow Spring Demonic Sword.

Combined with the concealment of his Earth Net Ghost Mask, he looked, at first glance, precisely like a direct descendant of the Yellow Spring Sect.

The two sisters also noticed something was off.

The Wind Pearl artifact that Feng Niaoniao was about to unleash, which had already started to release a sky-reaching storm mid-flight, was abruptly pulled back by her, her eyes wide with shock.

Sure enough.

The Yellow Spring Great Hand Seal erupted with a roar. The turbid current, clashing with the clear wind, almost instantly tore the storm apart. Both sisters cultivated the wind spirit root.

However, neither had reached the Heavenly Spirit Root level. This could be inferred from the power of their spells, as a Heavenly Spirit Root practitioner's divine abilities and spells of the same attribute would receive immense enhancement from their spirit root.

Wind attribute grants extreme speed and excels in large-scale attacks.

Its single-point destructive power, when pushed to its limit, is not inferior to that of lightning or fire; whether it's strong or weak depends on the individual. The inherited cultivation method of the Feng clan of the Secluded Valley is based on cultivating the wind spirit root.

And these two women clearly hadn't mastered it yet.

They had sufficient range, but lacked single-target destructive power, and thus were utterly crushed by the almost perfected Yellow Spring Great Hand Seal. Feng Niaoniao was still trying to retrieve her Wind Pearl artifact.

Her elder sister immediately came to her aid, and fierce winds gathered.

A hundred-meter-long gigantic sword of wind energy struck the turbid-yellow Great Hand Seal from the side; it was the Wind King Sword.

Wang Yu naturally wouldn't stand by and let this happen. He lifted the Yellow Spring Demonic Sword and hurled it, and the Yellow Spring煞 instantly erupted, not only corroding the Wind King Sword into nothingness.

The countless demons howling on the ground also dissolved into putrid water.

Drops of low-grade Myriad Spirit Blood Essence automatically flowed into Wang Yu's palm, temporarily collected by the Ice Coffin Seal.

Feng Niaoniao was even more unlucky. Her aggressive nature from the start caused her a great loss; her Wind Pearl artifact was washed over by the Yellow Spring turbid current, its aura visibly weakening.

Her main body even vomited large mouthfuls of fresh blood, revealing that the pearl was actually her Natal Artifact.

"Niaoniao!"

The elder sister's heart jolted. She once again unleashed the Wind Spirit Body secret technique; a clone rode the wind, actively attacking Wang Yu, while her main body flew towards her sister, gathering magical power in her right hand.

It condensed into an arm shaped like an eagle's claw, forcefully retrieving the Wind Pearl from the turbid current, and pulling Feng Niaoniao back, intending to retreat.

How could Wang Yu give them such an opportunity?

Enveloped in a dim yellow aurora, he bypassed the Wind Spirit clone, and in that instant, the Yellow Spring Demonic Sword had already beheaded it. The storm unleashed by the clone's death was completely ignored by him.

Yellow Spring Sword煞 Slash!

As the black-yellow sword light surged forward, the elder sister of the Twin Ladies of the Secluded Valley suddenly looked up, staring into his eyes, and said.

"Thief from Yellow Spring Sect, we will remember you! Don't think you can escape from the Blood Abyss Sacred Land!"

With that, the spatial fluctuations fully formed.

The Sword煞 Slash swept through the air, completely destroying a distant rock formation.

Wang Yu sighed helplessly.

This was why he disguised himself as a member of the Yellow Spring Sect. Among the geniuses who entered the Blood Abyss in this batch, Tier 3 Void Escape Talismans were standard issue for everyone.

He only had one disposable Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Treasure Talisman, which could only be used on Zhuo Shouyun. Therefore, it was inconvenient to seize treasures as Wang Yu.

His foundation was still shallow, and it was not advisable to offend too many people.

This was the biggest weakness for cultivators from humble backgrounds trying to rise. Since he was already here, conflict was inevitable, and disguising himself as a Yellow Spring Sect cultivator was the most suitable option.

As for whether he would be exposed, the Blood Abyss Sacred Land was not a completely sealed secret realm. Cracks and passages frequently appeared on its exterior throughout the year, and there was already a large number of illicit entrants.

He sighed with regret.

Wang Yu's spiritual sense swept over the area, and he suddenly froze.

A demon blood shadow was also staring blankly at him, seemingly dumbfounded.

"Brother Zhao Shang?!!"