Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, do you recognize this person?" Lin Dushan asked.

"This person is Lao Deren. I've met him a few times. He is from the Star Moon Gate camp." Zhang Yuanjing hesitated for a moment but decided to tell the truth, hoping to save the man's life.

"Oh, then help him disperse the bat swarm first, then talk to him and probe his intentions. But don't reveal my presence!" Lin Dushan said calmly, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts.

The leader of the bat swarm was a Yin Fire Bat in the late stage of the Qi Refining realm, with more than ten in the middle and early stages and dozens of Savage Blood realm bat demons. Lao Deren struggled to hold on, never falling, which was quite remarkable.

Zhang Yuanjing used his movement technique and quickly flew forward, immediately alarming Lao Deren, who was fully engaged in battle.

He quickly shouted for help, "Fellow Daoist, please lend a hand! There must be Profound Yin Grass in this nest. I am willing to give it to you!"

Zhang Yuanjing shouted loudly, "Fellow Daoist Lao, rest assured, I, Zhang Jing, am here! Let us defeat these bat demons first, then we can talk."

Upon hearing this, Lao Deren's expression changed slightly, showing no joy at encountering an old friend, but rather a hint of embarrassment.

Zhang Yuanjing had already summoned the Profound Crystal Axe, using the 'Mountain Splitting' move against the Yin Fire Bat in the late stage of the Qi Refining realm.

Faced with the oncoming Profound Crystal Axe, the Yin Fire Bat simply swayed slightly to dodge it. It glared at Zhang Yuanjing and chirped twice, immediately sending three Yin Fire Bats in the middle stage of Qi Refining and five in the early stage to attack Zhang Yuanjing.

This beast was quite intelligent, only sending a few bat demons to restrain Zhang Yuanjing, while still concentrating its strength to attack Lao Deren.

This was exactly what Zhang Yuanjing wanted. He used one hand to take out the Soul Restraining Hoe to block the incoming Yin Fire Bats, while the other hand continued to control the Profound Crystal Axe to hunt down the bat demon leader in the late stage of Qi Refining.

The Profound Crystal Axe was huge and powerful, but for the small and agile Yin Fire Bat, it was not much of a threat. It could easily dodge it with a flap of its wings.

However, the strength of the Profound Crystal Axe did not lie in speed and change, but in accumulating power and strong killing.

The more the bat demon dodged, the stronger the accumulated potential energy became. In the end, even with the Yin Fire Bat's swiftness and agility, it could not avoid the axe's strike.

This bat was not a cultivator after all and did not understand this principle. It only knew to dodge, and at first, it was easy, even mocking this person for making a foolish move.

After more than ten times, it instinctively sensed that something was wrong. The speed of the Profound Crystal Axe was now more than ten times faster than before. Even with its swiftness and agility, dodging became extremely dangerous.

It immediately came up with an idea, which was to use the axe to hit the cave wall. However, the sides were too far away, and only the top of the cave was closer, so it rushed upwards.

The Profound Crystal Axe tightly bit its tail. Suddenly, the axe's momentum expanded, locking onto its body. The bat demon wanted to turn, but its body was stiff, and its muscles were unresponsive. It crashed into the soil layer on the top of the cave, becoming dizzy. Then, it was hit head-on by the Profound Crystal Axe, cut in half from head to tail, and blood and internal organs splattered everywhere.

After killing the leader, the Profound Crystal Axe did not stop. It circled in the air and then chopped at the few Yin Fire Bats in the early and middle stages of Qi Refining that were besieging Zhang Yuanjing.

This time, Zhang Yuanjing chose a Yin Fire Bat in the middle stage of Qi Refining and killed it with just two axes.

At this time, the Yin Fire Bats in the field, seeing the leader's death, suddenly became manic. The Yin Fire Bats that were originally besieging Lao Deren all attacked Zhang Yuanjing, including some Savage Blood realm bat demons.

Zhang Yuanjing was not afraid. He only used the Soul Restraining Hoe to protect his head and neck, while the other hand constantly channeled the magic formula into the Profound Crystal Axe. The fully charged giant axe opened and closed, chopping horizontally and vertically, waving like the wind and as sharp as lightning. Only a rustling sound was heard, and the broken corpses and remains of the Yin Fire Bats fell like rain.

Lao Deren finally had a chance to breathe. He took out a pill and swallowed it. Without adjusting his breath, he took out two more flying shuttles from his storage bag. Together with the flying shuttle that was still circling in the air, there were a total of three, making a hissing sound, tearing at the remaining thirty or so Savage Blood realm Yin Fire Bats like electric snakes.

The Yin Fire Bats seemed to have gone mad. They did not dodge, but only bit and scratched at Zhang Yuanjing.

Zhang Yuanjing did not dare to be careless. He sacrificed a low-grade, low-rank Vajra Talisman to protect his head and neck. He also sacrificed the Yin Wind Blade, specializing in killing Qi Refining realm bat demons.

At this time, although the bat swarm had no leader to command them, they were eager to take revenge, and they all spewed out Yin Fire. Dozens of groups of green and blue flames fell towards Zhang Yuanjing's head in a dazzling and strange manner in the darkness.

Zhang Yuanjing activated the Swift Boots under his feet and flashed out ten feet, easily avoiding the Yin Fire.

If hundreds of bat demons used this in a narrow cave, it would definitely be a great weapon. Cultivators would have no choice but to use spiritual weapons and talismans to fight head-on.

Judging from the number of Qi Refining realm bat demons, this bat swarm should have originally had two or three hundred bats. It was unknown what means Lao Deren used to kill 80% of them. Otherwise, it would not have been so easy to deal with.

The Yin Fire Bats thought that Zhang Yuanjing was going to run away and all turned around to chase after him. Lao Deren took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack from behind, killing more than a dozen bats, leaving only a dozen or so Qi Refining realm bat demons still relentlessly attacking Zhang Yuanjing.

Zhang Yuanjing changed the magic formula and manipulated the Profound Crystal Axe to use the 'Sweeping' move. The giant axe rotated like the wind, killing in all directions. In just a few breaths, he chopped almost all of the exhausted Yin Fire Bats into pieces, and none of them escaped.

Lao Deren quickly stepped forward and bowed deeply to Zhang Yuanjing, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Zhang, for your help! You are truly my lucky star!"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled, "Fellow Daoist Lao, you don't need to be so polite. It is a rare fate to meet you again in this complex Profound Yin Cave. It is your calamity and my opportunity, and the result is not bad."

Seeing that he was covered in wounds and his aura was weak, indicating significant damage, Zhang Yuanjing added, "Fellow Daoist Lao, why don't you heal your injuries first? I will protect you."

Lao Deren cupped his fist and thanked him again. He was not pretentious and immediately sat down cross-legged. He first applied wound medicine to the exposed wounds, then took a few pills and began to adjust his breath.

After about an hour, he opened his bloodshot eyes and stood up to greet Zhang Yuanjing again.

At this time, Zhang Yuanjing had received a voice transmission from Lin Dushan. He immediately waved his hand, indicating that there was no need to be polite, and asked, "Fellow Daoist Lao, how did you get into such a deep cave?"

Lao Deren's exhausted and ugly face showed a hint of self-deprecation, "It was the Star Moon Gate cultivators who brought me down. Originally, we were divided into several teams to search for the Five Sects cultivators, only operating in the middle layer of the Profound Yin Cave. Our team had five people. Later, Shang Ming, the person in charge of the Star Moon Gate, ran into us and said that he wanted to go to the deep cave to wait for and kill other cultivators, and he would help us, and the heads would be ours.

"We believed his nonsense and immediately went down to a place a hundred feet deeper than this. As a result, after waiting for half a month, we didn't see a single person. Shang Ming suddenly said that there was an action and left. He is a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator of the Star Moon Gate. He played us, and we dared not to be angry, so we could only feel helpless.

"It just so happened that the number of heads we killed was not enough for each person to exchange for a Enlightenment Pill, so we searched for Yin Fire Bats in this area. Who knew that we would have bad luck and run into the direct lineage cultivators of the Five Sects. In a melee, two of us died on the spot, and the remaining three ran away separately. I ran too fast and didn't even have time to check, and ran headlong into this bat demon nest."

Zhang Yuanjing scanned the ground of the cave and asked in surprise, "Fellow Daoist, you fought a Yin Fire Bat swarm alone? The scale of the bat swarm here should be not small. I wonder what means you used?"

Lao Deren smiled bitterly, "It was indeed not small. At that time, more than three hundred Yin Fire Bats came out at once, including two in the late stage of Qi Refining, more than ten in the middle stage, and more than thirty in the early stage.

"Fortunately, before I came, I spent all my wealth and asked an elder of the Star Moon Gate to refine a Fierce Fire Thunder for me. In the crisis, I used it. The blazing sun fire burned ten feet of space, which happened to restrain the Yin Fire of the bat demons. In the blink of an eye, it killed nearly 80% of this group of Yin Fire Bats.

"I thought I could take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely annihilate the bat swarm, but I didn't expect that another Yin Fire Bat in the late stage of Qi Refining would emerge from the nest. This guy was quite intelligent and led the remaining bat swarm, attacking from the front and harassing from the rear, attacking from the left and right, leaving me with no power to fight back. If you hadn't appeared and helped, I'm afraid I would have been doomed."

"So it was such a great weapon. No wonder Fellow Daoist can fight a bat swarm alone!" Zhang Yuanjing nodded and pointed to the hundreds of holes in the top of the cave, "I don't know how many Profound Yin Grasses are on it. Fellow Daoist, go and pick them."

He also had fire attribute great weapons, which were the three hundred Fire Crow Spirits traded from Fire Crow Daoist. After entering the Profound Yin Cave, he first relied on Wu Jixiong's Four Symbols Absolute Machine Formation, so he didn't need to use this thing. Later, he was restrained by Lin Dushan, and he didn't encounter a single Yin Fire Bat along the way, so it was useless.

Therefore, he didn't have a direct understanding of the power of this Fire Crow Spirit. At this time, compared to Lao Deren's Fierce Fire Thunder, he had some confidence in his heart.

Lao Deren quickly said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, when I asked you to help me just now, I said that I would use the Profound Yin Grass here as a reward. How can I go back on my word!"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled, "You and I are old acquaintances, so there is no need for a reward! Just take it as a joke."

Lao Deren shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, absolutely not! I can give up the Profound Yin Grass to a cultivator I don't know at all. How can I be so shameless as to accept the kindness of a familiar friend! I will never touch the Profound Yin Grass here. If you don't take it, then let it stay as it is!"

Zhang Yuanjing persuaded him a few times, but seeing that he was determined not to, he sacrificed the Profound Crystal Axe and chopped at the center of the top of the cave with a 'Mountain Splitting' move.

With a rustling sound, all the holes in the top of the cave shattered, revealing a concave hole several feet in size, which contained very rich Yin poison gas.

The two looked at it and saw two Profound Yin Grasses several feet long growing in the concave hole. The dark black coils on the main stem were seven for one and six for the other, and the age was not low.

Zhang Yuanjing laughed and said, "It's really a coincidence. One for you and one for me, which is considered perfect."

With that, he flew up and used the Soul Restraining Hoe to pick one of each plant, wrapped the roots with the prepared jade foil, returned, put one into the storage bag, and handed the other to Lao Deren.

Lao Deren still wanted to decline, but Zhang Yuanjing stuffed the Profound Yin Grass into his hand, "Okay, Fellow Daoist Lao, if it weren't for your Fierce Fire Thunder, how could we have obtained these two grasses!"

Lao Deren then accepted it and cupped his hands to thank him, "In that case, thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Zhang!"

Zhang Yuanjing smiled, "No, I took advantage of you. What are your plans next? If you have no arrangements, why don't we travel together, killing bats and picking grass while returning to the exit of the Profound Yin Cave.

"To be honest, I was chased by a strong man, and I didn't use any Traceless Stones, so I can't find a way out. I need you to lead the way!"