MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 56

Chapter 56: The Horse Explodes

Chapter 56: The Horse Explodes

Following the mutation of that monster disciple, the other disciples on the ground also began to convulse violently. Their limbs swelled first, as if some force within was trying to tear them open.

Their bodies bulged like inflated balloons, then rapidly shrunk as if deflated. Over a hundred people simultaneously displayed this bizarre sight, like earthworms after rain frantically bursting out of the soil. The scene was chilling.

Li Juemu took a step back, his face pale, and his intuition made his scalp tingle: “This… are they planning to mutate all together?”

However, no one answered his question. Everyone’s gaze was tightly drawn to the horrifying sight before them, and the atmosphere was suffocatingly oppressive.

The next moment, the monster disciple’s new form gave Li Juemu his answer.

Seeing this, a chill ran through his heart. Although for Nascent Soul cultivators, the speed and strength of these monsters were still within manageable range, for Golden Core cultivators, such opponents were undoubtedly a deadly threat.

Li Juemu could clearly feel that the aura of these monsters was like an abyss compared to their cultivation level.

Shen Yucheng stood in the center of the arena, his face also not looking good. Although he had just made a bold statement, in the current situation, if a group of these monsters attacked at the same time, with just the few of them, the outcome was really hard to say.

At this moment, Shi Wen and Shi Huan took advantage of the chaos to escape from under the monsters’ feet, and were about to catch their breath when Bai Guchen’s voice came leisurely from above the arena, his tone without the slightest annoyance, but rather revealing a pleasure, as if he had seen a scene that satisfied him.

“Nascent Soul cultivators? Interesting… Then, if there’s a group of them,” he paused, his voice suddenly rising, with inexplicable excitement, “I’d like to see how you deal with it—Attack!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the monster disciples on the ground stopped convulsing. Their blank eyes instantly locked onto Shen Yucheng and the others, as if they had locked onto their targets, and then scattered in all directions at an extremely fast speed, madly pouncing on everyone.

Mo Yifeng immediately summoned his natal weapon, and the monster facing him was blocked by his strike. However, his feet slid back a few inches due to the opponent’s great strength, and he couldn’t help but grit his teeth and chuckle softly: “Not only is the speed not small, but this strength isn’t either.”

Before he finished speaking, Li Juemu on the other side had already been knocked several meters away by a monster, and fell to the ground in a mess. He covered his ribs, endured the pain, and shouted: “The strength is really not small!!”

Shi Wen and Shi Huan joined forces to deal with two monsters. Although the scene was a bit difficult, it was at least much more decent than Li Juemu.

The scene fell into a chaotic tug-of-war, with everyone entangled by a monster, unable to spare any energy.

Although Fu Lingxuan and other Nascent Soul cultivators were dealing with them relatively easily, the most annoying thing about these monsters was that—no matter how badly you beat them, even if you broke their limbs, they could still stand up again and continue to attack.

Ling Yi had just dislocated a monster’s arm, and the next second, the monster pounced on him as if nothing had happened.

Li Yuan’s situation was no better.

While fighting, Fu Lingxuan distracted himself and shouted: “This will only go on endlessly! Whoever solves their own monster first, quickly go find the mastermind!”

Everyone responded and gritted their teeth to speed up their movements. However, Fu Lingxuan quickly noticed an abnormality.

From beginning to end, only one person had not spoken.

“Shen Yucheng!” Fu Lingxuan frowned and shouted.

No one responded.

He looked up and quickly scanned his surroundings, only to find that everyone was dealing with their own monsters, except for Shen Yucheng, who was nowhere to be seen.

“Yucheng-ge!” Mo Yifeng forced back a monster with one blow, and suddenly turned his head, only to find that Shen Yucheng’s figure had already disappeared from his sight.

His heart shook, and Shen Yucheng’s possible departure time quickly flashed through his mind. Before he could recover, the monster behind him took the opportunity to swing its sharp claws, aiming straight for his back.

“Here!” At the critical moment, Shen Yucheng’s voice came, and a crimson golden sword light cut through the darkness, forcing back the monster behind Mo Yifeng.

Mo Yifeng turned his head and searched around, finally seeing a waving hand in a dark shadow not far away. He breathed a sigh of relief: “Yucheng-ge.”

Everyone looked over when they heard the sound, but were instantly speechless—Shen Yucheng’s figure could not be seen in that dark shadow, only a group of black fuzzy objects were wriggling, surrounding him in layers, like a huge prison.

No wonder Shen Yucheng hadn’t responded all this time. It was already an extraordinary talent to have survived until now.

Li Juemu broke out in a cold sweat: “Why are there so many monsters on Shen-xiong’s side?!”

Mo Yifeng immediately rushed up, grabbed the back of several monsters’ necks, threw them out like chicks, and then jumped directly into the monster group. With muffled sounds, his voice came: “Yucheng-ge! Are you okay!”

“Ugh! Why did you come in!”

“I’m worried about you, ge.”

“Get out quickly! It’s very crowded here!”

“I’m not afraid of being crowded, I’m worried about you!”

“I’m afraid! Get out of here! I can’t breathe!”

The people outside: “…”

Although they didn’t know why the monsters particularly favored Shen Yucheng, after everyone dealt with their own monsters, they rushed to support one after another.

Before long, the monsters were tightly bound by spiritual ropes. This kind of spiritual rope needs to be untied by the caster himself, so there is no need to worry about them breaking free and escaping in a short time.

Shen Yucheng finally broke free from the monster’s encirclement, took a breath, and kicked Mo Yifeng away casually: “There’s still one here.”

Mo Yifeng rubbed his kicked arm aggrievedly, but saw Shen Yucheng activating [Illusory Mist], and white mist quickly enveloped the entire field.

Li Juemu looked up at the sky, his expression nervous: “Why is there so much smoke all of a sudden? Is it another enemy’s trick?”

From a distance, Bai Guchen’s voice came: “Shen Yucheng, your smoke is useless to me, don’t waste your energy.”

Shen Yucheng didn’t speak, and quietly increased the intensity of [Illusory Mist].

After a while, a rustling sound came from the woods not far away. Everyone looked over at the same time, only to see a white-clothed youth flying between the trees. When he landed, his spiritual power shook slightly, he stood firmly, and casually brushed away a few fallen leaves from his shoulders.

Ling Yi narrowed his eyes and said coldly: “Is he the one who’s messing with us?”

Li Yuan hid a talisman in his sleeve, and calmly responded: “Looks like it is.”

Bai Guchen walked out of the woods calmly, his expression natural. A cold light flashed in Shen Yucheng’s eyes. He knew that the Puppet Dao’s spells had distance limitations, and Bai Guchen could never control them from a long distance. Therefore, he used the white mist to block his line of sight, and sure enough, he forced Bai Guchen to show himself.

Shen Yucheng’s eyes were full of insight. He knew that the Puppet Dao’s spells had distance limitations, so Bai Guchen could never control them from a long distance. As long as he released the white mist, the other party would reveal himself sooner or later.

“Why are you attacking the Lingfeng Sect?” Shen Yucheng asked coldly.

Fu Lingxuan frowned and looked at Shen Yucheng: “Do you know him?”

Shen Yucheng nodded slightly: “He was my opponent in the Immortal Sect Competition.”

Everyone instantly remembered Shen Yucheng’s battle. It was so memorable and unforgettable.

Ling Yi raised his eyebrows: “But didn’t he disappear immediately after the competition? How did he appear here now?”

Shen Yucheng looked directly at Bai Guchen, his eyes sharp: “You ran away back then. Why are you back now, and why are you attacking us?”

Bai Guchen straightened his collar, like a handsome young man, his tone teasing: “Why? Shen Yucheng, do you really not know?”

Shen Yucheng frowned, his tone low: “Is your target me? But we have no grievances, why are you targeting me?”

Hearing this, Bai Guchen’s smile was cold: “No grievances? Shen Yucheng, you really have a good memory.”

“Last time you asked me, who is Baili—” he paused for a moment, his tone suddenly cold: “He is my everything, my dearest person, my heart, my life.”

Shen Yucheng was stunned when he heard this.

Bai Guchen took a step closer, his voice with a chill: “Have you ever been to the ice xue on Hanji Peak?”

Bai Guchen understood by looking at the other party’s expression: “That’s right, you saw a tombstone inside, and inscriptions all over the place. That’s where I sealed Baili’s spiritual power. But it just so happened that because you, an outsider, broke in, all those spiritual powers were transferred to your body. Now you tell me, what am I looking for you for?”

Shen Yucheng was stunned for a moment, and then recalled everything in the ice xue.

Ling Yi suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and frowned: “Wait a minute… Although I don’t quite understand what you’re talking about, but according to you, the spiritual power of that person named Baili was transferred to Shen Yucheng’s body? But, according to the Heavenly Dao rules of the cultivation world for thousands of years, a person can only possess one kind of spiritual power in their lifetime. If they forcibly absorb other people’s spiritual power, they should have exploded and died long ago, right?”

Bai Guchen sneered: “Do you think I don’t know that? But do you young people know that in the era before you were born, there was a Dao that was different from others, and was called the strongest Dao in the world. Do you know why?”

Bai Guchen said leisurely: “Because this Dao can be passed down from generation to generation. As long as they are people who possess the same Dao, they can inherit its power. It made countless geniuses change their colors, and even became a taboo in the cultivation world. This kind of Dao once made countless young talents crazy.”

Hearing this, Shen Yucheng heard about this for the first time.

Bai Guchen looked at Shen Yucheng, his tone with a bit of aftertaste: “But don’t worry too much. The so-called inheritance is just the characteristic of spiritual power transfer, and the amount is actually determined by that person’s innate foundation. In other words, those vast spiritual powers in your body are your destiny, you can’t escape.”

Shen Yucheng didn’t expect that the other party had already seen through his physical abnormality.

Shi Huan on the side was confused and couldn’t help but interrupt: “Wait! What kind of Dao is it? Why are you suddenly talking about it?”

Bai Guchen smiled: “Don’t you all know? Shen Yucheng, you are really good at holding your breath, hiding it for so long, not even telling your friends. Since you can’t say it, then let me do it.” His eyes were as sharp as knives, piercing straight at Shen Yucheng, “Do you know that Shen Yucheng has been cultivating—”

“Puppet Dao.”

A clear and cold voice suddenly interjected, decisively. Bai Guchen raised his eyebrows slightly, his gaze glancing at the speaker with interest.

Shen Yucheng was stunned. He looked at Fu Lingxuan. He didn’t know when Fu Lingxuan had noticed, and he didn’t understand why the other party had never exposed him after finding out.

He choked, his voice with an undisguised fear: “…Second Senior Brother.”

Li Juemu repeated Fu Lingxuan’s words: “…Puppet Dao? Shen-xiong, are you really…”

Even if he was always slow to react, he understood at this moment that this was the biggest taboo Dao in the cultivation world. He had heard about it from the lecturer, but he had never thought that he would see it with his own eyes.

Ling Yi’s face was also extremely ugly: “Puppet Dao… that is an existence that was immediately sealed as a forbidden Dao after the Immortal Demon War a hundred years ago. Since then, people are no longer allowed to cultivate this Dao. If someone is born with it, they will have all their martial arts abolished by the various sects, and they will never be able to step into the path of immortality for the rest of their lives!”

Li Yuan looked at Fu Lingxuan: “When did you know?”

Shen Yucheng’s gaze also fell on Fu Lingxuan. He also wanted to know the answer.

Fu Lingxuan’s face remained unchanged, and he said after a while: “I only confirmed this answer just now, but the fact that you secretly controlled Li Juemu in the previous secret realm was the first time that made me suspicious.”

Shen Yucheng: “Did I reveal any flaws?”

Fu Lingxuan recalled: “No, on the contrary, it was too perfect.

Li Juemu uses a blunt sword, but after you controlled him, his swordsmanship was smooth and flawless.

Others may not be able to see it, but this gap is too big.

It is impossible for one person to use two completely different swordsmanships at the same time. Even if they can barely do it, it will cause a huge split in the spiritual power of the swordsman himself.

Moreover, I am very familiar with the movements of that swordsmanship—it is Mo Yifeng’s self-created swordsmanship. You live in the same house with Mo Yifeng, and you are with him every day, so naturally you are more familiar with his swordsmanship than anyone else. Therefore, it is not surprising that you subconsciously followed this set of swordsmanship at that time.”

“…Senior Brother has good eyesight.” Shen Yucheng didn’t expect that an unintentional action at the time would become the starting point for the other party’s suspicion.

Fu Lingxuan turned his head and looked at the person who had been silent all the time: “Mo Yifeng, when did you know?”

Everyone followed his gaze and saw Mo Yifeng standing behind Shen Yucheng, his expression indifferent. A smile curled up at the corner of his mouth: “What do you think?”