Talisman Emperor
Chapter 47 – Crimsonflame Mountains
Hu!
Chen Xi woke up from her meditation and exhaled a small breath. A white smoke surged like a flood dragon and stretched for longer as his breathing continued.
"I broke through. After a night of bitter cultivation, I have already reached the 9th level of the Innate Realm and I am only a step away from the Violet Palace Kingdom! "
Chen Xi stood up and trained her limbs. When he sensed the overwhelming power circulating throughout his body, he thought to himself. Previously I was able to dominate cultivators of the same realm while relying on my cultivation who was at the 8th level of the Innate Region, and I even defeated Li Huai. Now that I have reached the perfection stage of the Innate Realm, I must have the strength to protect myself even if I am facing the experts of the Violet Palace Realm.
However, Chen Xi also understood that he could slightly challenge a Violet Palace Realm planter due to the strength of the Violet Palace Realm planters held within the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain. If they were to get rid of this restraint, then the outcome of the battle would be impossible to predict when facing the true strength of the Violet Palace Realm cultivators.
The sky had already turned bright and had once again returned to a dark red-colored state. Chen Xi looked at the group of three Du Qingxi was already complete and ready when she walked out of the stone house.
"Your cultivation has advanced?" Du Qingxi could not help but speak in surprise when she saw Chen Xi who had a shining gaze hidden between her eyebrows.
“It looks like yesterday's fight helped you a lot. '' A trace of surprise flashed in Duanmu Ze's eyes as well.
“Oh, I think it makes sense. '' Song Lin glanced at Chen Xi with a deep gaze that contained an unknown meaning.
Chen Xi did not know that during the battle with Li Huai yesterday, no matter if it was an advanced sword technique and movement technique or the Grand Collapsing Fest Fist that he was running, it did not matter if it was an advanced sword technique and movement technique or the Grand Collapsing Fest that he was running, they all caused Song Lin to firmly believe that there must be an expert guiding Chen Xi.
At the light of the first dawn, most of the cultivators living within Bloodbath City had gone to start hunting ferocious beasts. Only a few people were like Chen Xi's group, moving in a fixed group to head deeper into the Bloody Mountain, or in other words, towards the end of the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain.
When they left Bloodbath City, Chen Xi finally saw that the 30 plus cultivators who gave off formidable auras were heading out of the city. According to Du Qingxi, these cultivators were all in the Violet Palace Realm. They did not only come from the eight great sects of Dragon Lake City, the three great institutions, and the six great clans, either, there were still some other Violet Palace Realm experts who came from other cities in the southern region. The experts here could be considered as much as the clouds.
Su Jiao and Cang Bin were also within the group and beside the two of them were some extremely conspicuous young men and women with great auras and indifferent gazes.
Grouping already?
Before Chen Xi could even react from his shock, a warm sound of laughter echoed and several young men and women who were in high spirits and wearing different clothes walked over from a distant group of people.
"Brother Duanmu, Brother Song, Miss Du, all of you also came. "The young man dressed in black in the lead smiled happily.
After a short exchange, Chen Xi discovered that this black-clothed youth was named Chai Letian, and was from one of the eight great sects of Dragon Lake City, Starnet Palace. This person was tall and handsome, with a scar on his left cheek; however, not only was it not terrible, it instead added a masculine and rude nature to him.
The three men and one woman beside Chai Letian were instead from the three great institutions in Dragon Lake City, and their status was not inferior to Chai Letian in the slightest. They were respectively Yu Haobai of Myriadcloud Institution, Du Quan and Du Kui of Windsoar Institution, and Murong Wei of Azurewood Institution.
Yu Haobai was a rather delicate handsome young man, both refined and outstanding.
Du Quan and Du Kui were a pair of twins, both tall and sturdy with very rigid and reserved dispositions.
Murong Wei was the only female among them. She had a beautiful and gentle disposition, like a smooth and attractive valley orchid, causing one to be unable to help but want to protect her.
These five people had clearly reached some sort of understanding and they were all following Chai Letian's lead.
Chai Letian seemed to have a good relationship with Du Qingxi, and when faced with Chai Letian's small talk, she was, Du Qingxi who had a cold disposition like snow could not help but reveal a trace of a rare smile.
Chen Xi noticed that the thin smile hanging on the corner of Duanmu Ze's mouth disappeared when she saw Chai Letian and Du Qingxi chatting happily, and Duanmu Ze's eyes faintly showed a hint of vigilance.
"Oh, Little Zeze is actually very pitiful. Chasing after Su Jiao, yet there was a formidable rival like Cang Bin; chasing after Du Qingxi, yet Chai Letian had appeared again. It's a really helpless situation. ”
A smooth sound transmission flowed into his ear. Chen Xi glanced over to see the lazy and slovenly Song Lin suddenly appear to stand by his side. He still had a sleepy expression on his face, as if it had never existed while he was awake.
"What do these people want to do?" Chen Xi sent a voice transmission as well.
“Form an alliance, of course. In fact, if you observe with ama, you will be able to notice that even though the group of five Chai Letian came from different powers from Dragon Lake City compared to Su Jiao, it was not, but they came from two completely different camps … "
Along with Song Lin's explanation, Chen Xi finally understood what was going on.
The so-called eight great sects, three great institutions, and the six great clans of Dragon Lake City had extremely complicated relationships with each other and were divided into two camps.
Chai Letian represented the Starnet Palace, Yu Haobai and the others represented the three great institutions and Du Qingxi, Duanmu Ze, and Song Lin represented the Du Clan, the Duan Clan, and Song Lin represented the Du Clan, and the Song Clan were all included in the same camp.
The power represented by Su Jiao, Cang Bin, and a few young men and women all came from the other camp.
This time, both camps had members entering the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain, and for the sake of protecting their members from other camps, moving in groups was undoubtedly the best option.
“Actually, the relationship between these forces is still complicated. They are all colossi that have been inherited for almost 10,000 years. There was disagreement and communication between them, and just thinking about their relationship would leave one's scalp numb due to the complexity of their relationship. ”
Song Lin yawned and said weakly, “But you only need to remember that Su Jiao and those people are our enemies. ”
Chen Xi was speechless, subconsciously, she had actually been divided into a camp and she wondered if this was a good or bad thing.
Chai Letian suddenly turned around and smiled as he looked at Chen Xi and said, "Could this fellow Daoist be Chen Xi who defeated Li Huai yesterday?"
“Not bad, not bad. "Chai Letian laughed out loud, yet she turned around and continued chatting with Du Qingxi. From start to finish, he did not give Chen Xi a chance to speak.
Clearly, Chen Xi was only an existence that could be eliminated in Chai Letian's heart, and it was enough to just greet Chen Xi and not need any further attention.
Chen Xi did not think of this, but Duanmu Ze was instead displeased and said with a voice transmission, "You can stomach being ignored by someone?"
"It seems ... not too serious, right?" Chen Xi said in surprise.
Duanmu Ze said with great resentment when he saw Chen Xi really did not care, “When a man lives in this world, giving birth and respect is ranked first. What if a man has no honor? What is the difference between living to death? As the old saying goes, people lean on their faces like trees leaning on their bark…
Chen Xi could endure being ignored, but she was completely unable to hold back the chatter of Duanmu Ze and she interrupted. "You're hostile to Chai Letian?"
"Truly irreconcilable!" Duanmu Ze replied with anger.
"Why don't we join forces and kill him?"
Duanmu Ze's face froze and he suddenly jolted waking up from an inexplicable manic state, then his expression fluctuated between gloom and hesitation before finally saying sadly, “It won't work. If I do this then Du Qingxi will look down on me forever. ”
As he spoke, he patted Chen Xi on the shoulder. “My brother, thank you! When did you come to Dragon Lake City? We, brethren, must drink. ”
Chen Xi was flabbergasted and suddenly remembered what Song Lin had said earlier. Duanmu Ze was indeed helpless when faced with this rival in love, Chai Letian.
"Let's go!" In the distance, Su Jiao waved her hand, then led the group of people by her side to cross into the distance.
Chen Xi suddenly noticed that Li Huai was following behind Su Jiao's group. That person seemed to be hiding among the crowd earlier. Now he turned to look in this direction, and when he saw Chen Xi's gaze, his expression instantly became extremely gloomy.
"Let's go too. '' Chai Letian who spoke, and seeing Du Qingxi's expression, it was clear that she was secretly agreeing to her status as the leader.
"Hmph! I will not listen to anyone's orders other than Qingxi. What about you, Chen Xi? ”Mu Ze inquires with voice transmission.
"Me?" Chen Xi was stunned, then replied. “That's no problem. ”
Duanmu Ze patted Chen Xi on the shoulder immediately, then said, “Alright! We will act together from now on, as for Chai Letian .. Bah! Wasn't it just because he had an ancestor in the Nether Transformation Realm? If not for this, he would not even have the chance to lead the group. ”
Chen Xi rubbed her nose in helplessness towards the sudden action of Duanmu Ze who was as if they were old friends, but she also did not oppose him.
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The Crimsonflame Mountain Range was vast, with many dangerous peaks that looked like sharp swords standing there raising the sky and soaring into the clouds. Numerous low and loud roars of ferocious beasts could be faintly heard in the distance.
Crimsonflame Mountain Range is located 5,000 km from Bloodbath City and stands on a vast and sandy desert. It was a place to go to head to the end of the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain.
Not only was the number of ferocious beasts extremely large here, there were even many ferocious beast leaders roaming the depths of the Crimsonflame Mountain Range. In innumerable years in the past, the disciples participating in the trial of the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain were all warned by their seniors that they should not be at all close to the Crimsonflame Mountain Range, so it became like a dangerous forbidden area.
If it was a regular trial, there would absolutely be no one who would enter here, but today was definitely not an ordinary time. Many figures suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain, then they instructed in a loud voice before jumping consecutively as they walked into the depths of the mountain range.
Their speed could be said to be fast, but they still found wave after wave of ferocious beast attacks. These monstrous beasts came from all over the Crimsonflame Mountain Range in a harsh and savage manner, seemingly wanting to protect their own territory as they fearlessly charged at these cultivators.
Numerous shrill cries and howls rose and descended, covering the Crimsonflame Mountain Range with a frightening atmosphere that caused one's heart to tremble.
That group of people quickly disappeared deep within the mountains.
"This is the Crimsonflame Mountain Range?"
Not long after, Chen Xi's group appeared at the foot of the mountain as well. When they raised their eyes to stare at this vast mountain range, the expressions of everyone present were extremely solemn.
“This is the final barrier towards the end of the Southern Barbaric Nether Domain. A savage beast that caused chaos within and was inevitable. We can only forcefully charge through. ”
Chai Letian frowned and said, “We must accelerate our pace, Su Jiao's group has already left before us. Moreover, only three days remained until the end of the one month period. We have to get there before then. ”
Whooshing sound!
Once he was done, Chai Letian was the first to jump out to head into the mountains.
When the others saw this, they all rushed after him. Du Qingxi was only intending to leave as well when she suddenly saw Chen Xi staring blankly at the spot and remained unmoved, and she couldn't help but ask, "Chen Xi, what's up?"
Duanmu Ze was also very surprised, he then shook his head and casually patted Chen Xi on the shoulder. "Sister Chen, it's time to go. ”
Chen Xi's figure stiffened for a moment, then she spoke faintly as if she had just woken up from a dream. "Oh well . ”
No one noticed that a trail of bright light was quietly sneaking past Chen Xi's gaze as he looked at the tall and imposing Crimsonflame Mountain Range.