Chapter 340: Chapter 65: Gathering Qi and Dispersing Form, True Man Changchun Appears!

All twenty-five martial arts puppets self-destructed one after another.

They only managed to delay the Blood-Eyed Old Demon for less than twenty minutes.

In just about half an hour, the Blood-Eyed Old Demon caught up again...

At this moment, the spirit boat was still several thousand miles from the Changchun Sect, far from being able to escape back.

Moreover, even if they managed to escape back... then what?

Since the Blood-Eyed Old Demon has already chased them here, there’s absolutely no possibility of letting everyone escape.

Facing the pursuit of a Nascent Soul cultivator, even if they escape back to the Changchun Sect, the outcome is only death...

...

On the spirit boat, more than two thousand cultivators looked at that terrifying figure, feeling the unbearable pressure.

"Chase... He’s caught up!"

"That is the Blood-Eyed Old Demon!"

Not only the disciples but even Han Jihai looked grim.

After a moment, he looked at Lin Chen with a distant gaze.

"Chen’Er, your instinct is too accurate, sometimes it’s not a good thing..."

Then, Han Jihai quickly ordered:

"All disciples, prepare to leave the spirit boat, run in different directions!"

Upon hearing this, the disciples on the spirit boat quickly reacted, jumping off and fleeing in all directions.

If they flee separately, there’s still a chance to save their lives.

Meanwhile, Han Jihai shouted:

"Taoist Friend Xu! Are you still here?"

He shouted for a while, but there was no response around him.

Han Jihai became anxious immediately and hurriedly said:

"Come out quickly! I’ll pay more... Is it not enough if I pay more?"

"Come out quickly and deal with this Blood-Eyed Old Demon, Taoist Friend Xu!"

Lin Chen stood beside Han Jihai, showing a strange expression on his face.

It’s not that he didn’t want to come out, but...

Even if he put in all his effort, he still couldn’t handle this Blood-Eyed Old Demon!

Thinking of this, Lin Chen pulled Han Jihai and said:

"Master, don’t be stunned, let’s escape too!"

"Right, right! Let’s escape too!"

Upon hearing this, Han Jihai summoned the spirit boat and had several disciples stand on it.

Lin Chen, however, was faster in summoning the Purple Jade Gourd.

"Master, get on my magical treasure, it’s faster!" Lin Chen shouted.

Han Jihai, the senior sister, and others did not hesitate upon hearing this and swiftly got onto the gourd.

The gourd, being a size of one zhang, was more than enough for four people to stand on.

Lin Chen looked at Li Zhenqian and Li Fengping brothers...

Gritted his teeth and said:

"You guys come up too!"

With six people standing on the Purple Jade Gourd, it was a bit crowded.

But the flight speed of the gourd wasn’t affected in the slightest.

Lin Chen controlled the Purple Jade Gourd, turning it into a stream of light flying towards the Changchun Sect.

Around the Purple Jade Gourd, two clouds rose, accelerating the speed by several times.

"Cloud Soaring Technique!"

Feeling this terrifying speed, the senior sister Miko was stunned.

"Junior Brother, isn’t your speed... a bit too fast?"

The tunneling speed Lin Chen displayed at this moment was already approaching the Nascent Soul stage...

He remained silent for a moment and explained:

"Senior Sister, life-saving skills, shouldn’t I practice them well?"

"Look at the cloud under the gourd..."

Han Jihai then thought of something and hurriedly said to cover up:

"Ahem, it has the style of our Pill Peak lineage! As long as we practice our life-saving skills well..."

The expression on Han Jihai’s face became much more relaxed.

This Purple Jade Gourd’s speed was too fast, as long as the Blood-Eyed Old Demon didn’t pursue them first, they could surely escape...

However, just as Han Jihai thought this, he felt that terrifying aura behind was swiftly approaching.

Han Jihai looked at those disciples who had successfully escaped, then looked behind at the relentless pursuit of the Blood-Eyed Old Demon, falling silent.

Good heavens, he’s really chasing them first.

But thinking about it, it makes sense, the Blood-Eyed Old Demon would naturally prioritize the strongest cultivators.

With Lin Chen and their group of six Golden Core cultivators gathered together, it would be strange not to be chased first...

"A miscalculation."

Lin Chen’s face turned somewhat grim, as he wanted to protect those he cared about, but now it’s backfiring.

"Chen’Er, can it go any faster?" Han Jihai asked at this moment.

"I’ll try my best." Lin Chen increased the infusion of True Essence, now exhibiting True Essence close to the late Golden Core stage.

As the Blood-Eyed Old Demon got closer and closer, Han Jihai instead calmed down.

"If that old monster catches up later, I can still hold him off for a moment..."

"When the time comes, you all run separately!"

Lin Chen remained silent upon hearing this.

At this moment, the Blood-Eyed Old Demon was less than ten miles away from them.

At most, within ten breaths, he would catch up...

The distance between the two continued to close.

Nine breaths...

Eight breaths...

Six breaths...

Three breaths...

Han Jihai leaped up, flying towards the Blood-Eyed Old Demon.

At the same time, a giant vine rapidly grew from the earth.

It was three feet thick and several tens of zhang long.

This vine lifted Han Jihai into the air.

Han Jihai held a long sword, looking at the increasingly close Blood-Eyed Old Demon, his face showed determination.

"Master!"

"Martial Uncle Han!"

The senior sister, Li Zhenqian, and others shouted anxiously.

Lin Chen’s face changed slightly, looking towards his master Han Jihai.

"Looking for death!" The Blood-Eyed Old Demon’s face showed a sinister smile.

A blood-colored spear slowly gathered, stabbing towards Han Jihai.

"Master!"

Lin Chen’s expression was shocked, and he no longer intended to hold back.

A black long blade appeared in Lin Chen’s hand.

The Demon-slaying Blade!

A year ago, the re-forging of the Demon-slaying Blade had been completed.

Wang Lishan invited several of the most outstanding artifact forgers of the Great Xia Country.

It took a whole year to craft the new Demon-slaying Blade.

The perfect fusion of the materials from Luo Ming’s Red Spear and the Black Blade Martial Spirit!

After three hundred and sixty-five days and nights of crafting...

Ultimately, this Demon-slaying Blade reached the fabled standard of a "Seventh Tier Exotic Treasure."

This was also the strongest weapon in the history of the Great Xia Country.

Approximately equivalent to a Spiritual Artifact in the Cultivation Realm... and an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact at that!

Due to the upgrade in materials, the abilities of the Black Blade Martial Spirit were further unleashed.

Over more than a year, with the nurturing of this material, its spirituality became increasingly abundant.

At this moment, the Demon-slaying Blade in hand, Lin Chen’s mind was in perfect sync...

"So, with my current strength... combined with the more powerful Demon-slaying Blade, can I battle the Blood-Eyed Old Demon?"

Lin Chen silently pondered in his heart.

"Regardless of being a match or not, I must act!"

Lin Chen knew very well that once he made a move, his identity might be exposed.

But the problem was, he could not watch his master of eighteen years die before his eyes!

Just as Lin Chen was preparing to fight to the death...

Lin Chen suddenly sensed something.

He saw an incredibly thick vine drilling out of the ground, bringing up a large amount of soil.

This vine was several feet thick and instantly grew to hundreds of feet high.

Then, the vine, wrapped in a verdant glow, enveloped Han Jihai completely.

Lin Chen was momentarily stunned, "Master, this strength..."

Such terrifying technique fluctuations, a Golden Core Stage could never fully manifest, right?

Even Lin Chen couldn’t instantly make a massive vine of hundreds of feet rise and form a protective technique.

Not only that...

Lin Chen keenly noticed that within dozens of miles around, the life force in trees and vegetation became exceptionally vibrant.

As if they had absorbed enormous nutrients, growing crazily.

"Is this... Spring Returning to All Woods?"

Lin Chen hesitantly said.

He had seen this technique on the top floor of the Changchun Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.

Only Golden Core cultivators were qualified to practice it... but Golden Core cultivators’ grasp of this technique should not be this terrifying.

The one who was most skilled in this technique, naturally, was from a thousand years ago... True Man Changchun!

Lin Chen’s heart was stirred, silently putting away the black blade.

Meanwhile...

Boom!

The terrifying Netherworld Ghost Qi surged towards Han Jihai.

But the dense life force and the huge vine-formed barrier firmly blocked the Netherworld Ghost Qi.

When the red mist dissipated, the Blood-Eyed Old Demon was momentarily stunned.

He suddenly thought of something, looking around the surroundings.

Then he sneered coldly and shouted:

"Changchun the Old Monster! Since you are here... why not show yourself quickly?"

The Blood-Eyed Old Demon did not launch another attack, but took out a magical treasure, vigilantly scanning the surroundings...

The air suddenly became quiet.

Suddenly, a soft breeze emerged from the distance, dragging a large swath of green leaves, which fell upon the huge vine barrier.

The green leaves slowly condensed, eventually forming a human figure.

A young man with jade-like features, dressed in green, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist.

The moment the Blood-Eyed Old Demon saw the young man, his pupils contracted sharply.

"Gathering Form and Dispersing Qi!"

"It really is you... Changchun the Old Monster!"

True Man Changchun stood atop the vine barrier, looking calmly at the Blood-Eyed Old Demon before him, and said:

"Since you know it’s me, why not retreat quickly?"

"Retreat?"

The Blood-Eyed Old Demon sneered, "You old monster, you probably don’t have many years left, do you?"

"You really are aging but not declining in spirit! I want to see... just how strong you really are now!"

The Blood-Eyed Old Demon sneered again, clasping his hands together, as Netherworld Ghost Qi surged out.

In an instant, it transformed into a huge blood-colored spear, thrusting towards True Man Changchun.

"Founder!"

"Founder, be careful!"

"The founder is here, we are saved!"

Around them, many disciples saw this scene, and their faces lit up with joy.

Even Lin Chen visibly relaxed quite a bit.

"It truly is True Man Changchun... he actually appeared!"

"Thank goodness... now we finally have something to counter the Blood-Eyed Old Demon!"

Lin Chen silently thought to himself.

For a force without Nascent Soul cultivators, a Nascent Soul cultivator is like a "nuclear weapon," possessing absolute deterrence.

But now, the Righteous Alliance also had its own "nuclear weapon!"

Even if True Man Changchun was not a match for the Blood-Eyed Old Demon...

He could certainly protect the Righteous Alliance.

"Truly a twist of fate!"

"I thought we’d have to chase and escape across thousands of miles..."

While everyone was reassured, the blood-colored Netherworld Ghost Qi was only three inches away from True Man Changchun.

True Man Changchun, however, made no movement.

But in the next second...

True Man Changchun suddenly transformed into countless green leaves, spreading in all directions.

The Netherworld Ghost Qi instantly lost its target...

Soon after, True Man Changchun reappeared hundreds of feet away, with the green leaves reshaping into human form.

The Blood-Eyed Old Demon’s face turned grim.

"You’ve actually practiced Gathering Qi and Dispersing Form to such a level!"

True Man Changchun chuckled and asked in response:

"Do you still wish to fight?"