Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 735 Hidden Mission 21

Ji Xi followed Yun Chu and the other person to train in the Netherworld Mountains. After a year, Ji Xi parted ways with the two and returned to her sect to go into seclusion.

After Ji Xi left, Yue Ze took Yun Chu to continue her training.

More than a decade passed, and Yue Ze and Yun Chu traveled to the Demon Realm.

They went to the demon realm to search for someone.

Yu Xue, a Mahayana stage elder of Yu Xiao Palace, encountered danger in the demon realm and sent out a distress signal.

Elder Yuxue holds one of the tokens for opening the sect's Golden Core Secret Realm, so the sect sent people to find Elder Yuxue.

Even if Elder Yuxue has perished, we must still retrieve the secret realm token.

Otherwise, the Golden Core Secret Realm cannot be opened.

Meanwhile, all the Nascent Soul and Out-of-Body cultivators from various sects who were not in seclusion were heading to the Demon Realm to search for Elder Yu Xue's whereabouts.

Yun Chu used system points to exchange for a pill that could disguise her as a demon. After taking it with Yue Ze Zhenjun, the two entered the demon realm.

Yu Xue's distress message was sent from the Wind Dragon Domain of the Demon Realm.

Legend has it that it was formed from the physical body of a wind dragon after its death.

After obtaining the location of the Wind Dragon Domain, the two headed towards it and arrived after more than half a month.

Upon entering the Wind Dragon Domain, Yun Chu released Fire Iron Flying Ants to search for Elder Yu Xue's whereabouts.

A few days later, through the message brought by the Fire Iron Flying Ants, Yun Chu learned that Elder Yu Xue was being hunted down by the Tiger Demon Clan. The reason for the hunt was that Elder Yu Xue had killed the young patriarch of the Tiger Demon Clan.

As for why they killed him, that remains unknown.

Yun Chu and Yue Ze arrived at the inner perimeter and encountered the tiger demon. However, they were busy chasing Elder Yu Xue, so they passed by the two of them.

Yun Chu had the Fire Iron Flying Ants follow these tiger demons to see if they could get any clues about Elder Yu Xue.

Believe it or not, they actually found a clue.

Deep within the Wind Dragon Domain, Yun Chu and Yue Ze finally spotted Elder Yu Xue in a secluded valley filled with ancient wind-eroded rocks.

She was sitting cross-legged peacefully on a huge, smooth, weathered rock, her body brimming with fluid magical energy, showing no sign of being seriously injured or on the verge of death.

Her moon-white robe, a symbol of her status as an elder of the Jade Flute Palace, was spotless, making her appear calm and composed, while a barely perceptible, almost fanatical excitement flickered deep in her eyes.

"Elder Yu Xue! You..." Yue Ze's surprised and doubtful words were interrupted by Yu Xue's cold voice.

"You've come at the perfect time!" She stood up, a meaningful smile playing on her lips, her gaze fixed intently on the two of them. "I was just worried about not having enough manpower."

She didn't give the two a chance to ask any questions, and suddenly waved her sleeve.

Behind her, on the wind-eroded rock wall, the seemingly natural mottled textures suddenly lit up with a dazzling, eerie blue light, instantly intertwining to form the outline of a huge, complex magic circle full of ancient and desolate aura!

The array base is embedded in the rock with some kind of unknown black crystal. The dark blue array patterns flow inside as if they were alive, emitting a spatial fluctuation that makes people's hearts tremble.

At the core of the array, a semi-illusory rhomboid crystal core is suspended, constantly rotating, and the surrounding space is slightly distorted and deformed under the pull of the crystal core.

"A time-space teleportation array?!" Yue Ze exclaimed in shock, his expression changing drastically. "You actually dared to steal the sacred artifact of the Tiger Demon Clan!"

Yu Xue sneered: "That's right! It is the treasure that the Tiger Clan has guarded for generations! With it, I can roam freely throughout the world!"

Her eyes burned with even greater greed. "Unfortunately, the spiritual energy required to activate this formation is as vast as the ocean, far beyond my capacity alone. That's why I have no choice but to... trouble my fellow disciples for help!"

Before she finished speaking, she quickly made a hand gesture, and the dark blue magic array shone brightly, instantly enveloping Yun Chu and Yue Ze, who had just stepped into the valley and were caught off guard!

Om-!

An irresistible and terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from the magic circle beneath their feet!

Yun Chu felt a sudden tightness all over her body, as if an invisible giant hand was gripping her spiritual power and frantically drawing it out!

No, it's not extraction, it's devouring!

The magic array was like a bottomless vortex, greedily drawing in the surging power from her meridians.

A sharp, agonizing pain shot through his dantian, his qi churned, and his true essence rapidly drained away.

She tried to activate the magic weapon, but her body felt like it was stuck in an invisible swamp of glue, and she couldn't even move her fingers.

Yue Ze was in the same situation. Veins bulged on his forehead, and anger almost burst forth from his eyes. He tried his best to circulate his cultivation technique to resist, but could only watch helplessly as his spiritual power surged into the formation like a river bursting its banks.

The few dozen breaths felt like centuries in the intense pain and helplessness of having one's spiritual power madly stripped away.

Yun Chu's face quickly turned pale, and the emptiness inside her body made her feel dizzy.

Just as the two felt they were about to be drained dry, the azure magic circle suddenly trembled, and the central rhomboid crystal core erupted with a pure white, dazzling halo of light, instantly engulfing everything in the circle!

boom!

The three of them, along with the entire massive formation, transformed into a dazzling stream of light that tore through space, and suddenly vanished from their original spot, leaving only violent spatial ripples that lingered in the empty valley and the wind-eroded rock walls that were scorched by the intense light and cracked inch by inch.

……

A violent wave of dizziness washed over me, as if my soul had been forcibly stuffed into a high-speed spinning drum and then violently thrown out in the next instant.

The intense feeling of weightlessness and the excruciating pain of being pulled apart by space left Yun Chu in a state of mental confusion.

After an unknown amount of time, the tearing dizziness finally began to subside, replaced by a thick, salty, fishy smell and a cold, damp sensation.

"Pfft—cough cough..." She coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of seawater, struggling to lift her head.

The sky was clear and blue, yet it felt strangely vast and unfamiliar.

Beneath them stretched an endless expanse of deep blue sea, shimmering with a faint, eerie light.

The seawater was icy cold, and the surging waves carried a certain stagnant power.

She floated on the sea, quickly examining herself. Her spiritual energy was almost depleted, her meridians ached faintly, and her body had suffered internal damage from the forced absorption by the array, but fortunately, her foundation was not destroyed.

With a quick thought, she immediately sensed the fire iron flying ants she had placed on Yue Ze.

Fortunately! The powerful force that transcends time and space seems unable to sever the deep contractual bond between her and the spirit ants.

Yue Ze was fine, but the perception point transmitted from the Fire Iron Flying Ant was far away from her.

Yun Chu took out the pills and swallowed them. After her spiritual energy recovered somewhat, she commanded the Fire Iron Flying Ants to take her away from this sea area to find Yue Ze.

We sped across the icy sea for a whole day.

The distant sound of energy explosions, like thunder, instantly shattered the calm of the sea.

Yun Chu focused his gaze on the distance. Several miles away, he saw the sea churning and boiling, with enormous waves soaring into the sky!

A few faint but rapid golden sword lights flickered desperately within, like a few fireflies in a storm, firmly suppressed by an enormous shadow.

That shadow was a ferocious, gigantic beast!

Several thick tentacles covered with bone spurs are like giant pillars supporting the sky. Each swing stirs up towering waves, containing terrifying power capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks!

A gaping maw covered in spiraling, sharp teeth spewed out foul-smelling, dark purple toxic mist and highly corrosive water jets with each opening and closing!

Trapped in the middle were three heavily injured Golden Core cultivators.

The magical flying swords beneath their feet shone with flickering light, their protective shields were shattered, their robes were corroded in many places, and their faces were filled with horror and deep despair.

The terrifying pressure emanating from that behemoth made no attempt to conceal its identity as a Nascent Soul stage sea monster! This was utterly a futile and hopeless situation!

A cultivator narrowly dodged an incoming tentacle, but was grazed on the shoulder by a corrosive water arrow, letting out a miserable scream as pungent blue smoke billowed from half of his body.

Just then, another, thicker tentacle coiled around him like a python, about to crush him completely in the next second!

The siren could no longer break through, and in the next instant, she collapsed into the sea and died.

It turned out that Yun Chu had released the Fire Iron Flying Ants to kill the sea monster. Of course, the sea monster was also captured by the Fire Iron Flying Ants.

He then returned to Yun Chu's side.

Yun Chu continued on his way, ignoring the injured Golden Core cultivators.

As for inquiring about matters in this realm, nothing is more important than reuniting with Yue Ze.