Chapter 73: Black Flame's First Battle

Feeling the chaos of the team, Zhu Lianfeng sternly shouted, "Everyone, don't panic! This is just an illusion array used to isolate sight and hearing, it's fundamentally harmless!"

"Boom!" As soon as his words fell, ground fires rose violently, and sky thunder struck in waves.

It was the same old friend, the Xuanjin Thunder Fire Tongyou Array, which had been used to kill Lingyun Sect cultivators at a grand ceremony!

Who said it was harmless! In an instant, screams erupted one after another, and many people ran randomly outwards, the situation becoming a chaotic mess.

Actually, the harm wasn't too great. It mainly relied on the ground fire in this place, but the ground fire on Danxia Mountain was not comparable to that in the secret realm; it wasn't strong itself. It was fine for killing five people from Lingyun Sect, but here there were several hundred people, and their cultivations were all very high. If they were calm enough, they could completely suppress the array as if scratching an itch.

It was a pity that no matter how Zhu Lianfeng shouted, no one could hear him. Effective cooperation was fundamentally impossible in the Ghost Prison Illusion Array. The sky thunder and ground fire stirred up the situation into a chaotic mess, and the team disintegrated in just an instant.

Just as he was urgently seeking countermeasures, a cold sword light broke through the nether and chased away the darkness, cutting through the Ghost Prison and heading straight for his spiritual platform.

Following the sword light was a figure with blue eyes and white hair, who, in this Ghost Prison, was like a grim reaper hooking souls and seizing spirits.

Zhu Lianfeng was a third-grade Dao cultivator, and he decisively sacrificed a magic treasure, which was a small gold bucket-shaped object. He pressed it down towards Dugu Qingli's head, shouting, "Break!"

This gold bucket could defile and disorder the opponent's spiritual energy. If encountered suddenly, it would cause most spiritual energy to scatter, completely collapsing their offense, making it extremely useful.

But Zhu Lianfeng was horrified to discover that the light of this gold bucket couldn't shake the opponent in the slightest, as if facing a ten-thousand-year-old ice river, eternally unmoving.

"Clang!" The ice sword pried open the gold bucket. After all, the opponent had third-grade strength. Dugu Qingli's body swayed slightly, her breath exhausted, and she fell to the ground.

But just as the ice sword and gold bucket clashed, and Zhu Lianfeng received the counter-shock, a purple light suddenly flourished on the other side. Extremely violent sword energy howled past, as if the energy of mountains and rivers had condensed into a giant dragon, roaring through the nine heavens, unreasonably and overbearingly rushing towards his side flank.

Zhu Lianfeng condensed a qi shield technique to block a bit, but the qi shield shattered, and he was also sent flying back more than ten zhang. The ice sword on that side was again close to his neck, and the surroundings were all ice crystals.

Ice Prison Cold Mist!

Fortunately, the most typical characteristic of a high-third-grade cultivator was that he not only hovered but could truly fly!

Zhu Lianfeng rose on clouds, avoiding this series of offensives. His heart was extremely heavy. These two fourth-grade sword cultivators were so strong...

One alone might not be his opponent, but working together they were extremely difficult to deal with, completely unlike imagined complete abuse of lower levels. This place was also the opponent's home ground, and he didn't know what changes and sneak attacks awaited him. If he messed up even a little, he would still fall into the hands of these two women!

If only someone could lend a hand...

Zhu Lianfeng confronted the two swords, one blue and one purple, left and right, and in his busyness, glanced downwards.

The people brought by Incense Burning Tower had already scattered and fled, running randomly everywhere, and then one by one fell into the formations prepared by Tianxing Sword Sect disciples, like catching fish.

After all, in the Reincarnation Judgment Array, everyone couldn't see... only one person who could see was the third-grade Dan master leading the team, Chang Qing.

But what was Chang Qing doing? A dignified third-grade cultivator, playing no role at all?

Zhu Lianfeng's gaze swept back and forth. He finally found Chang Qing's location in the midst of the chaos and almost spat blood in anger.

Chang Qing was sitting cross-legged on the ground, chanting incantations, seemingly trying to break the array.

It was truly damnable that he was a Dan master who had spent his life in front of a Dan furnace; his battle sense was simply speechless. On the surface, the first reaction to break the array was originally fine, but the situation had changed. The opponent's sect master was even personally present. You, as the only person who could see the situation and help, were still there breaking the array!

Zhu Lianfeng was furiously urgent, "Great Elder, the situation is already a chaotic mess. Even if you break the array now, you can't recover the chaos! The only way to recover is to come and assist me. Take down Shen Tang, and everything will be settled!"

This distraction almost got him cut by Shen Tang, but fortunately, Shen Tang was still in a wheelchair and inconvenient to chase, otherwise this strike might have injured him.

Chang Qing then seemed to wake up from a dream. He quickly burned a talisman, and a path of violent fire dragon rushed towards Shen Tang, directly pouncing.

Although this time choosing this range-type technique was not very suitable, Zhu Lianfeng at least felt a slight sense of relief. As long as he could help, it was good!

With a "whoosh" sound, a human figure flashed over, and the fire dragon solidly rushed onto the human figure's body, burning the opponent and causing them to scream, then heavily fall to the ground and roll and wail.

Chang Qing was greatly shocked, "Cao Qiang, how is it you!"

A third-grade fire dragon talisman was actually fully eaten by his own protector.

Cao Qiang angrily ate the third-grade fire dragon, rolling in pain on the ground. How could he have the strength to reply? In the darkness, the sound of a wheelchair rose, and a small Daoist child pushed Lu Xingzhou to appear in front of Chang Qing, "It's not Incense Burning Tower's Great Elder, a third-grade talisman is like free money..."

"Lu Xingzhou!" Chang Qing suddenly became greatly angry, "Just relying on you, this cripple and child, you dare to provoke this seat!"

Even if a Dan master couldn't fight, they shouldn't be humiliated like this across several levels!

Even Zhu Lianfeng, who was coping with the pincer attack from Shen Tang and Dugu Qingli, felt that Lu Xingzhou coming out was too much of an overestimation; he didn't want his life...

Chang Qing didn't say a word and took out another third-grade talisman. The talisman just started to burn, but suddenly it paused a bit, seemed to want to extinguish, and then stubbornly continued to burn.

But Lu Xingzhou sacrificed a jade pendant.

It was the Huo family forbidden law spirit jade, which stirred up the spiritual energy in the field. All low-third-grade Dao laws were invalid, and middle-third-grade ones would receive some interference and affect their power. High-third-grade ones were not affected themselves, merely pausing for an instant.

Chang Qing's heart moved, "Huo family forbidden law spirit jade... you really are from the Huo family..."

As soon as his words fell, that small Daoist child's body was like a ghost, suddenly arriving in front of Chang Qing, and a fist boomed in.

An instant pause in techniques meant nothing to an experienced fighter, but Chang Qing surprisingly lost his premonition. Facing A Nuo's advance, he didn't even know whether to continue urging the talisman or switch to a protective one.

In the end, the thought of self-preservation prevailed, and Chang Qing quickly switched to a mirror light talisman to block in front.

Lu Xingzhou shook his white banner, and ten thousand ghosts emerged, harassing Chang Qing. Chang Qing had just sacrificed the mirror light talisman and didn't know what use it had. A thousand resentful souls bypassed the mirror light and entangled towards his four limbs.

A Nuo didn't hit him at all. He stepped on the ground, refracting and rebounding. A large pancake swayed and became a well cover, like a flying disc, rushing straight towards Zhu Lianfeng's back.

Lu Xingzhou's white banner split into two paths. A path of black flame, carrying a ferocious smiling ghost face, silently and soundlessly burned towards Zhu Lianfeng's feet.

Zhu Lianfeng: "???"

He discovered that with a third-grade Dan master assisting him in the array, he was inexplicably being surrounded and attacked by four people instead.

The situation didn't allow for much thought. Zhu Lianfeng's Dao robe swelled up, and he "Bang" bounced open the iron cake flying disc behind him. A copper mirror rose against the wind, barely resisting Shen Tang's flying sword.

Dugu Qingli's sword simultaneously pierced down from above. This was the most disgusting. Shen Tang's flying sword was just powerful, but this stinky white hair's every sword was not only killingly sharp, but simultaneously brought wind and ice cold that always delayed people's actions, even causing qi and blood circulation to be not smooth. Zhu Lianfeng decided to first break this stinky white hair. A jade ruyi from his bottom of the box suddenly flew out, heavily crashing onto Dugu Qingli's sword tip.

As for whatever black fire was burning from below, he didn't even feel a temperature. Lu Xingzhou was just a low-grade Dao cultivator. What powerful force could he have?

He was directly ignored by Zhu Lianfeng. A dignified third-grade Dao cultivator, shaking his law power could scatter this useless black fire.

"Bang!" Dugu Qingli grunted, being thrown flying by the powerful magic treasure collision. At the same time, A Nuo and Shen Tang were also shaken back.

It seemed that the majestic Zhu Lianfeng, who was fighting against four people, didn't even have time to be delighted for half a second, when a scream erupted that shook the earth.

That completely ignored black fire was fundamentally not scattered by his casual shake. It silently penetrated his law power protective cover, instantly turning even his shoes and feet into flying ash.

Zhu Lianfeng didn't even have the thought to explore what kind of ghostly thing that was. He had only one idea in his heart: run!

If he didn't run now, he wouldn't need to run again!

"Whoosh!" With a flash of light, he flew away. Zhu Lianfeng folded in mid-air, staggering away.

Shen Tang, Dugu Qingli, and A Nuo seemed to have known this result early on. They didn't even look at Zhu Lianfeng. The next moment, all their offensives uniformly turned towards Chang Qing.

From Lu Xingzhou releasing resentful souls to entangle Chang Qing, to simultaneously sending black flame to burn Zhu Lianfeng, to Zhu Lianfeng screaming and escaping after fighting one against four, the entire process was only in the blink of an eye.

If he were a cultivator with rich battle experience, this blink of an eye would allow for many reactions, but unfortunately, Chang Qing was not. He had just solved the entangled resentful souls when the situation in the field had already changed dramatically, and the offensives of the four people had already landed on his body...

The courtyard guard Zhang Shaoyou and others' Shen Qi smiled slightly, "Do you want me to release you all out now?"

Zhang Shaoyou was silent.

Shen Qi said faintly, "Hesitating and wavering is also meaningless... later, you can only be a marginal person. If you really want to have some position in the new sect, allegiance is still necessary."

Zhang Shaoyou took a deep breath, "I know."

Shen Qi didn't need to release the sword array. Zhang Shaoyou patted his sword sheath, and a path of sword light, like a meteor chasing the moon, disappeared in a flash in the direction of Zhu Lianfeng's escape.

Almost at the same time, the effect of the Wheel Platform Judgment Array disappeared, and the people from Incense Burning Tower found that they could see things in front of their eyes. Sword light burst forth in the sky. Including Chang Qing, everyone was shocked and raised their heads, looking at Second Protector Zhang Shaoyou's familiar Youlong Sword piercing through a hundred li, piercing into the back of the fleeing First Protector Zhu Lianfeng in the distance.

From the horizon, the lingering sound of a scream was transmitted. A body pierced through by sword energy, without feet, fell with a bang in the center of Xiazhou City.

Sheng Yuan Yao, who was sitting uneasily in the Town Demon Office, heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, hurried out to look, and was stunned.

Wasn't this the First Protector of Incense Burning Tower, the dignified third-grade Dao cultivator Zhu Lianfeng?

How did he die here?

Where were his feet?

On Danxia Mountain, Chang Qing's voice was extremely hoarse, "Zhang Shaoyou! Only now do I know that you people are all ungrateful white-eyed wolves!"

Zhang Shaoyou jumped out of the courtyard wall and punched Chang Qing in the face, "Go to hell! Old man figures if you hadn't made us trip the sword array, everyone would have left together. Tianxing Sword Sect was originally not our opponent at all! What Wheel Platform Judgment, what ground fire and thunder array, if we were all in the array, they wouldn't have any effect, they could be broken in a blink! Now you bear this outcome yourself. Even if Incense Burning Tower is annihilated tomorrow, it will be annihilated in the hands of a stupid person like you. Old man refuses to accept it!"

Chang Qing was originally left supporting right clumsily under the pincer attack of those men and women. How could he block this sudden punch from Zhang Shaoyou? He was directly sent flying, spitting blood wildly.