Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

At the same time Zhang Ling was trying to save himself.

A great battle was unfolding in the greenwood stone waste mine, located on the northwest side of the central swamp region of the Green Canopy Mountains.

Within a certain mine tunnel, a large expanse of blood-red Yin Sha ghost energy enveloped the entire area, accompanied by resounding booms emanating from within.

Shadows flickered within the blood-colored ghost mist, concealing hordes of ashen Yin spirits besieging the cultivators inside.

Suddenly, a crimson blaze erupted from within, as a fiery dragon burst forth, stirring the blood-colored ghost energy into a rapidly swirling storm.

"Insignificant Yin ghosts, daring to obstruct this young master's path, break for me!" Within the ghost energy stood a grim-faced, golden-robed youth.

This youth was wreathed in a fire dragon, his face displaying patches of fiery scales, making him appear fearsome, almost like a demon cultivator.

With a dragon's roar, the fire dragon spewed crimson flames from its mouth, incinerating most of the Yin spirits within the blood-colored ghost energy instantly.

The youth shifted his hand seals, extending his hands to reveal a longbow gleaming with red light. The fire dragon coiled around him instantly turned ethereal and merged into it. He drew the bowstring, and a streak of fire shot out.

With a deafening boom, the fire exploded in mid-air, transforming into a rain of fiery lines. The blood-colored ghost energy that had trapped him was scattered by the fire.

However, a cloud of blood gathered into a blood-colored skull and flew away.

The golden-robed youth snorted coldly and immediately drew the bowstring again. A streak of fire shot out, instantly obliterating the blood-colored skull.

At the same time, a crisp sound was heard. The youth's eyes swept over and saw a square, oval-shaped blood-colored jade plate falling from the blood-colored skull.

Upon closer inspection, this blood-jade plate resembled a blood-colored inkstone, covered with many black runes.

An arrow of fire released by him was stuck on it. Cracking sounds persisted, and cracks appeared on the blood-colored inkstone.

Seeing this, the golden-robed youth was stunned. It turned out that what had trapped him for so long was just a Yin Sha treasure.

In the moment of his daze, a green-faced, fanged imp emerged from the blood-colored inkstone, leaping out and transforming into a gust of Yin wind, fleeing into a nearby mine tunnel.

After the imp left, the blood-colored inkstone dimmed, as if it had lost all its spirituality, and shattered into fragments with a bang.

The golden-robed youth reacted and immediately gave chase.

In a pursuit and escape, they passed through several mine tunnels. Finally, after a cup of tea's time, the youth caught up with the imp and released several fire arrows, killing it.

But his face didn't look much better. Instead, it was even more gloomy, with a feeling of being tricked.

This ghost spirit was quite powerful, using a Yin soul treasure to trap him for a while.

Half an hour ago, he and his elder sister had arrived at this abandoned mine, using a secret method to sense that his third uncle was indeed hiding inside. They went in to search.

Unexpectedly, they encountered this ghost creature not long after entering.

This didn't look like a wild ghost spirit. It must be related to the traitorous third uncle.

The golden-robed youth realized something was wrong. He quickly identified a direction and hurried towards his elder sister.

He had just passed through a few mine tunnels when he suddenly sensed the entire mine shaking violently, as if an earthquake had occurred. Terrifying spiritual power fluctuations also came from the front.

The youth instantly sensed that this spiritual power fluctuation was emitted by his elder sister. Moreover, she was not using ordinary methods; she seemed to be using the family's secret technique.

For his elder sister to use a secret technique to fight, it seemed that she had found their third uncle.

Firelight flashed on his body, and his speed suddenly increased, rushing towards that side.

However, just as his escape light accelerated, he suddenly saw streaks of golden light appearing in front of him, and the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations instantly became violent.

"This is—"

The youth immediately thought of something and quickly slowed down his escape.

Sure enough, he heard a loud dragon's roar.

A large expanse of golden light swept over, and the youth's eyelids twitched. He shouted, "Elder sister used the Yellow Dragon Map."

He quickly stopped his escape and threw out a crimson dragon-shaped jade scepter, releasing a thick layer of firelight to cover himself.

He braced himself for defense.

The next moment, the entire mine tunnel was torn apart like paper, creating crevices of various sizes. Earth and stone crumbled, and smoke and dust rose.

Loud rumbling sounds came from all directions, like the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing.

Fortunately, the golden-robed youth had prepared his defense, otherwise he would have been in a mess.

This huge commotion was naturally caused by his elder sister, the veiled female cultivator, Princess Lingxi, using a spiritual treasure.

Dozens of miles away from the golden-robed youth, in an even larger mine tunnel, terrifying Yin Sha ghost energy spread, covering the entire space like a layer of black ink. The sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling were deafening.

But at this moment, streaks of golden light were appearing in the ghost energy. Wherever the golden light passed, large swaths of ghost energy rapidly dissolved as if encountering the scorching sun.

The source of the golden light was a huge scroll, hundreds of feet long.

The scroll was dazzlingly golden, with faint images of mountains, rivers, clouds, flowers, and plants. As the golden light flickered, these images transformed into streamers, which then gathered into runes of various colors, rushing out of the scroll and forming auspicious clouds in the air. A golden dragon phantom flew out, as if a real dragon had descended.

Countless golden lights were the light waves transformed from the dragon's roar.

"Yellow Dragon Map, you girl actually brought this spiritual treasure. Long Zhi, you killed me!"

At this time, opposite the huge scroll, a mass of blood-black ghost energy gathered, hiding a pale-faced middle-aged man.

This man looked no different from ordinary people, but if someone with strong strength could see that this person had no physical body and was a powerful ghost spirit.

This person was the Blackwood Old Ghost released by Long Zhi to delay time.

The Blackwood Old Ghost looked terrified, staring at the huge scroll, and let out a hissing sound. He quickly waved his hand and sacrificed six blood-colored small flags.

He even opened his mouth and spewed out a black ghost pill, releasing strands of pure Yin Sha ghost energy, which merged into the six small flags.

The six small flags were dyed pitch black.

The Blackwood Old Ghost spun around and separated six green-faced, fanged ghost shadow clones, directly swallowing the six small flags.

Instantly, the six ghost shadows turned into six pitch-black skulls, chuckling strangely, each staring with blood-red ghost eyes.

"Senior Blackwood, you were once a Long family offering. I didn't expect you to steal my clan's secret techniques, even turning to ghost cultivation and rebelling with Third Uncle." A cold voice came from across.

Princess Lingxi stood on top of the golden dragon's head, looking at the Blackwood Old Ghost, with a trace of complexity in her eyes.

With the sound, the golden dragon raised its huge head, with seven-colored aura flashing in its mouth, as if something was brewing.

"Little girl, what do you know? Your Long family was also an unknown group. If you hadn't stolen the ancient Dragon race bloodline, how could you have the glory you have today?" The Blackwood Old Ghost sneered, "Blood Ghost Soul Devour, rise."

Six skulls, filled with rich Yin Sha evil energy, lunged at the golden dragon in the air. As they moved, more ghost energy merged into the skulls. The six skulls swelled to hundreds of feet in size, spitting out balls of blood-colored Yin wind.

In an instant, everything turned as black as ink, with constant ghost laughter.

Princess Lingxi frowned slightly, and the golden dragon under her feet roared, spitting out a seven-colored glow.

The first three skulls that rushed up were swept by the seven-colored glow and instantly turned into green smoke.

The Blackwood Old Ghost turned pale at this sight. Although he knew that the Yellow Dragon Map was a spiritual treasure with great power, he didn't expect his blood ghosts to be unable to withstand even a single blow.

His blood ghosts were not ordinary means. Basically, as long as his essence soul did not perish, they could be said to be immortal and indestructible. Yet, they had no power to resist.

The old ghost swayed and turned into a cloud of black smoke, quickly scurrying to the other side. The remaining three skulls flew back, blocking in front of him, spitting out balls of pitch-black Yin wind.

The seven-colored glow swept across the area where he had just been, and the ground within two or three hundred feet below melted into a huge pit, as if it had been melted by a powerful flame.

With a roar, Princess Lingxi controlled the dragon to spit out another mouthful of dragon breath, sweeping straight towards the Blackwood Old Ghost.

The Blackwood Old Ghost lost the courage to fight again, quickly pointing at the three skulls in front of him. The three skulls exploded as if they were detonating themselves, turning into a cloud of blood mist, which he reabsorbed into his body.

His body also swelled instantly, exploding into a large cloud of blood, from which countless blood-colored figures rushed out, fleeing everywhere, making it difficult to lock onto his main body.

The seven-colored glow swept across the cloud of blood, instantly piercing the ghost energy full of holes. None of the blood-colored personnel escaped.

It seemed that this strike had killed the Blackwood Old Ghost.

However, Princess Lingxi's eyes narrowed, and she lightly tapped the golden dragon under her feet. Immediately, the golden dragon let out another roar.

A layer of golden sound waves vibrated out, instantly radiating throughout the entire space.

Princess Lingxi turned her eyes and instantly saw a vague black skull ghost face at a certain location thousands of feet to the left.

This was the Blackwood Old Ghost's essence soul.

At the same time as Princess Lingxi's gaze swept over, the skull ghost face knew something was wrong. He didn't bother to hide his aura and instantly turned into a black light, fleeing at top speed.

Princess Lingxi was about to control the golden dragon to attack again when a loud laughing voice entered her ears.

"Elder sister, little brother is here, leave this old ghost to me."

A pile of rubble not far from the skull ghost face suddenly exploded, and a fire light shot out from it. Inside was the golden-robed youth.

He drew the flame longbow in his hand, and a flame streamer shot out.

The Blackwood Old Ghost knew it was bad and quickly changed direction to escape.

The flame streamer turned into a rain of flame lines, enveloping him.

The skull ghost face spat out a cloud of blood mist to wrap itself, but it was instantly pierced by countless fire lights.

But this old ghost's supernatural powers were not small. As the skull ghost face was about to be scattered, it spat out a black light that flew out of the fire light, which was wrapped in a black round bead.

It was this old ghost who condensed his natal ghost pill, which contained his essence soul.

However, the Blackwood Old Ghost still could not escape the fate of his soul flying away and his spirit scattering.

A seven-colored glow covered the black ghost pill. With a crack, the ghost pill immediately cracked countless cracks in the glow.

Followed by a scream, the Blackwood Old Ghost's vague white face melted like ice and snow, turning into a wisp of green smoke in the glow.

"Hehe, this old ghost almost escaped. Elder sister is still powerful." Seeing this scene, the golden-robed youth chuckled. He was about to say something when he suddenly saw his second elder sister's face change.

"Careful!"

Princess Lingxi seemed to have discovered something and immediately reminded him with a delicate shout.

At the same time as this woman spoke, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst out from a crack in the ground under the golden-robed youth's feet.

The golden light was dazzling, as if a dragon shadow flashed past, with terrifying spiritual power fluctuations, tearing through the air and slashing fiercely on the golden-robed youth.

The golden-robed youth did not have time to react, and with a muffled groan, he was knocked out and smashed directly into a stone wall hundreds of feet high above, smashing out a deep pit.

"Sixth brother!"

Panic appeared on Princess Lingxi's face. She quickly controlled the finance and released a piece of seven-colored glow, sweeping towards the crack in the ground.

Wherever the glow passed, the ground melted into liquid. But it didn't seem to hit the person who attacked the sixth brother.

Then came a man's surprised voice, "True Scale Treasure Armor!"

At the same time, there was a loud bang, earth and stone exploded, and the golden-robed youth flew out of the rubble. He was in a miserable state at the moment, his clothes were ragged, and there was a white light crack between his chest and abdomen, almost splitting him in half.

Upon closer inspection, the youth was wearing a piece of inner armor made of white scales. It was vaguely visible that there was a faint layer of seven-colored light around it. At first glance, it was not an ordinary treasure.

At that moment, he sensed the threat of death.

True Scale Treasure Armor, this is a secret treasure in the family, with amazing defensive power. But the deep white marks on it at the moment have already split most of the treasure armor.

If the sword light just now was a little stronger, this armor would not be able to protect his life. The golden-robed youth's face was both shocked and angry, glaring at the person who attacked him. "Third Uncle!"

At some point, there was a middle-aged man in a green robe, holding a white light jade sword in his hand, his face was also gloomy.

This person was the traitor they were chasing, Long Zhi.

"Little Six, you can bring the True Scale Treasure Armor, it seems that the old ancestor really wants to train you to be the new successor. But, you have to be careful, maybe the old guy covets the blood power in your body, it's hard to say." Long Zhi glanced at the youth and said jokingly.