Chapter 170: The Mysterious Power Begins to Reveal Itself (1/5)
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In the valley, there were four great powers' Open Heaven stage experts, and also peerless strongmen like Fu Bo. Who wasn't a person with keen intuition? They immediately responded to the call and appeared at the entrance of the valley.
"Brother Li, who ambushed you? What's going on?" The crowd asked in unison.
Li Ao Bo's body swayed, and at this moment, everyone could clearly see that there was a huge blood hole in his waist, with fresh blood flowing non-stop. It is worth noting that the strong of the Open Heaven Realm can control every part of their body, and even the largest wounds can heal instantly.
There are only two possibilities, first Li Ao Bai was forced too tightly, let alone mobilize spiritual power to heal wounds, even control is not possible. Or the person who hit him left behind a terrible alien spiritual power, and Li Ao Bai needs to get rid of this spiritual power first.
He still doesn't have time.
What kind of person or force can drive this master to such an extent?
"After I left, I first recovered a bit of spiritual power and then left, but not far from walking out, I fell into an array, and then encountered a powerful enemy, which was beyond my ability to defeat!" Li Ao Bai pointed at the wound with his fingers, while using his spiritual power to control the injury, but the healing speed of the wound was strangely slow.
This can prove that other strong foreign spiritual powers were indeed left in the wound, and they must be removed before the injury can be controlled.
"Who is he?" Nan Gong Changkong and others asked in surprise.
"A masked man, the boundary is open to three heavens!" Li Ao Bo said in a low voice, and there was even cold sweat dripping from his forehead, it can be seen that removing these alien spiritual powers is not an easy task.
"They intended to capture me alive, so I was able to take advantage of the situation and kill my way out. Otherwise, I would have been lying dead on the ground long ago!" He continued to say.
"Open up the three-layered heavens!"
"What kind of power is this, daring to make such a ruthless move!"
Everyone was furious, it was clear that Li Ao Bo did not accidentally trespass on someone else's territory, but rather the other party had set up a large array targeting all of them! It was just that Li Ao Bo unexpectedly left in a huff, which is why he became the first to fall into the trap.
That is to say, there are forces that want to take them all down at once!
It's really outrageous. Which sect dares to target all the Open Heaven realm strongmen of the four major nations at once? Aren't they afraid of being too greedy, eating too much and choking themselves to death?
However, open three heavens!
Each differing by a small boundary, generally requiring five people to counter, thus one Open Heaven Three Layer strong practitioner can be roughly calculated as twenty-five Open Heaven One Layer. Of course, some people have an extremely large dantian space, some grasp momentum, and some possess earth-grade or heaven-grade martial techniques, all of which will lead to a great disparity in combat strength.
One to five, this is a conversion and comparison according to conventional forces.
There were only about twenty people in the scene, including those who had opened up to three heavens. One strong opener of the third heaven was enough to suppress them - unless there were also freaks like Zhou Heng among Nan Gong Changkong's group, it didn't need to be invincible within the grand boundary, just four or five people working together could resist.
However, even if a strong person who can open the three heavens is enough to suppress them all, it's not necessarily possible to kill them off, or even just kill one of them. After all, defeating and killing are two completely different things.
So, we need to set up a formation and trap them here!
Generally speaking, starting from the realm of splitting the earth, no treacherous terrain can trap a warrior, even cliffs can be easily jumped over and seas of fire can be forced through. Therefore, to kill such a warrior, one must first use formations to cut off their path.
Of course, if there is a swift and agile movement like the Rapid Cloud Step, then it wouldn't be so troublesome. One punch, one palm, one sword, ten steps to kill one person. As long as the combat strength is overwhelming, countless people can be killed in seconds.
Zhou Heng didn't go over, his position was enough to hear Li Ao Bo and others' conversation.
Masked man? Captured alive?
He suddenly thought of the previous slaughter incident that had caused a stir in various countries, but at that time, those who were killed were all Jiling Realm warriors. Now, this force has set its sights on the Kaitian Realm?
But I don't know if it is or isn't.
"Alas, why make futile resistance!" At this time, a faint and ethereal voice suddenly came from outside the valley, vague and elusive, making it impossible to discern where the sound was coming from.
"Who!"
"Don't hide your head and show your tail, come out in person!"
Nan Gong Chang Kong and others immediately shouted in unison, they didn't have too much worry, because there was still a Fu Bo who was at least at the Mountain River Boundary sitting in town, killing his way through the Three Heavens like slaughtering chickens and dogs.
"Do you want to die that much?" The faint voice sounded again, and a masked man suddenly appeared, with a slightly thin build, but he should be a man, without the curves unique to women.
"Report your name!" Nan Gong Changkong and others shouted in unison.
"You don't have the qualification for this!" The masked man said calmly.
"How dare you!" Everyone shouted in unison.
Zhou Heng suddenly interrupted and asked: "Were the martial artists in the various Spirit Gathering Realms killed by you? Why did you do this?"
The masked man glanced at Zhou Heng, seemingly a little surprised that a mere Earthly Boundary cultivator would dare to interrupt at this time. He immediately withdrew his gaze, not deigning to look at such an insignificant person again, saying: "The dead don't need to know so much!"
He snapped his fingers, and whoosh, a series of figures emerged one after another. Suddenly, dozens of masked men appeared at the entrance of the valley.
Although they didn't openly admit it, nor did they deny it, as if by default, in fact, they all came with masks on and didn't expect to be recognized, moreover, their goal was to take down everyone in the valley and dig out their scorching hearts!
"Get out!" Just then, a voice full of majesty suddenly came from the valley, Zhou Heng and others didn't have any reaction at all, but those masked men were shocked in unison, their faces under the black hoods turned pale.
What a terrible aura, just one voice is so overbearing.
"How should I address you, senior?" The masked man who first appeared was clearly the leader. He bowed in the direction of the valley and said, "I didn't expect another senior from Shanhe to be present. I'm afraid I've been rude!"
"Scram! Don't make me repeat myself, you're disturbing the young mistress's rest!" A voice floated out from the valley, although no one was seen, but everyone could be certain that it was definitely Fu Bo, and only this inscrutable old man had such abilities.
"It was our fault, we offended your seniority, Tiger Wei, please forgive us!" The leader of the masked men hesitated for a moment before speaking again, but his tone didn't show too much fear.
This mysterious force first slaughtered the martial artists in the Gathering Spirit Realm, and now it seems to have an even bigger appetite, daring to target even the Open Heaven Realm. Clearly, there must be a mastermind behind this with ulterior motives, no one would kill for fun.
There may be such madmen, but it is impossible for an entire force to consist of such madmen.
This evil act has been condemned by the whole world, so they have to act with masks on. The power hidden behind them must be incredibly strong; otherwise, how could they dare to do such a thing?
"Hmph!" Fu Bo let out a cold snort, but didn't say anything else and didn't make an appearance or take action.
"Goodbye!" The leader of the masked men bowed to the valley, waved his hand, and the people behind him suddenly jumped up and disappeared in an instant.
They came suddenly and left even more suddenly, with no sense of existence at all.
"Senior, why not intercept them?" A strong cultivator of the Sky Opening Realm from the State of Water asked boldly, if they could capture the masked man who was in charge, they would definitely be able to ask him a thing or two.
"After a brief silence, Fu Bo said: 'There is also a strong man in Shanhe border who is hiding in the dark!'"
He only said this one sentence, and everyone immediately fell silent. If Fu Bo made a move to keep the person, that strong man would definitely make a move to stop him, and it would be hard to say how things would develop at that time. But one thing was certain: don't think about having a peaceful outcome.
Moreover, Fu Bo's task was only to protect Mei Wei Xiang, and there was no need to care about the life and death of others, let alone use Mei Wei Xiang's life as a gamble.
This time, the mysterious force was forced back by Fubo, but what about next time? The opponent's strength is simply unpredictable!
It's very hard to kill the Three Heavens of Opening Heaven, but for a strong cultivator in the Mountains and Rivers Boundary, killing someone in the Opening Heaven Realm is too easy, they can suppress and kill with just one move, and there's no way to escape!
Everyone was silent, they could seek help from the back door of Langyue Country, but would the strong men of Shanhe Border be willing to be bodyguards? If they knew the origin of this mysterious force, then the major forces would unite and send out the masters of Langyue Country to directly attack the enemy's lair and destroy them in one fell swoop.
What can be done now?
They just want to take the initiative to attack, but can't find the enemy, so they can only wait for the enemy to come and attack. It's easy to be a thief for a thousand days, but it's hard to prevent theft for a thousand days.
One night passed quickly, and the masters of the four major countries returned to their respective countries one after another. Naturally, they were going to seek help from Lang Yue's backstage forces as soon as possible. As for what extent their backstage forces could help them, that was an unknown quantity.
Zhou Heng naturally didn't leave, he still had to go and search for the spiritual core, this was a great treasure.
Mei Weixiang had wanted to stay, but unfortunately, Fu Bo didn't listen to her this time. That mysterious force was too terrifying. This time, there were Mountain River Boundary strong practitioners hiding in the dark. What if next time it's a Spiritual Ocean Boundary cultivator?
Those who should leave have left, and the remaining ones are the original guards. This can't let the spiritual stone mine be lost here, right? The miners who extract spiritual stones will arrive soon, and at that time these guards will also take on the responsibility of supervision, strictly preventing various countries from secretly hiding spiritual stones and not taking them out.
Zhou Heng strolled through the desolate mountains, with Qiao Mie's charming and alluring Xiao Shuoyu by his side. She hooked her arm around one of Zhou Heng's, walking shoulder to shoulder with him, a sweet smile plastered on her face.
Hei Jian's reaction was very vague, making it impossible for Zhou Heng to pinpoint the location of the treasure. The two wandered around in the deep mountains, unable to find the specific location of the Ling nucleus, but Xiao Huo Shui discovered a hot spring and insisted on taking a bath.
Zhou Heng had no choice but to let her, thinking that Lan Fei had also been in the Jiuxuan trial tower for a long enough time. Although there was clear water inside, at most it could be used to wipe down her body, taking a bath was just a luxury.
So he also released Lan Fei.