Fox Demon Crossing

Chapter 167: Fierce Fighting in the City, Mysterious Pursuit

Li Nuoyan's eyes sparkled with amethyst-like luster. She looked at the night sky of the bustling city, and a warning sign became apparent in her heart. Through the gaps between the bustling crowds and skyscrapers, she sensed a causal line extending to a distant unknown place.

As expected, a practitioner was using this causal line to explore her specific location. Li Nuoyan's face darkened instantly, but she was not panicked, because she had already set up a powerful city hiding formation, which was enough to temporarily cover up her breath.

However, that person did not seem to let her go easily. It was true that when one settles down in the city, disasters may come from the sky. She had not provoked this person, but not only was her secret base destroyed, her disciples died, and even the new underground leader she recruited was suspected to have been killed by this person.

At this moment, Jin Renfeng, who had just left the imperial capital, was riding a wooden flying sword, flying through the brightly lit cities in the sky, letting the cold wind blow across his cheeks, with an expressionless face. The light of the three ancient coins in his hands gradually faded, and it seemed that he was about to lose contact.

At the same time, the causal line began to become increasingly blurred, as if it would disappear at any time. Jin Renfeng couldn't help but admire in a low voice: "This urban hermit's methods are indeed brilliant."

Suddenly, he felt a strong gaze locking onto him from nowhere. "Interesting, you dare to spy on me, let's have a contest." The mysterious rune on his forehead flickered, and a bolt of lightning with the power to destroy everything passed through the space between the tall buildings...

At this time, Li Nuoyan was observing all this with her "Eye of Insight". She immediately realized that the situation was critical, and quickly left the hidden formation. However, just as she left, a bolt of lightning penetrated her defensive formation with incredible precision, creating a deep hole.

The explosion alarmed Lin Ziyi and his female ghost companion who were nearby. Li Nuoyan gritted her teeth, endured the pain of her arm being scratched by the thunder, and a flash of determination flashed in her eyes. She said to the two new apprentices: "You should find a safe place to hide first, leave here, and do your own things. When I solve the mortal enemy, I will naturally come to you."

"I have taught you the first lesson of cultivation. What follows depends on your own efforts." Before she finished speaking, Li Nuoyan waved her hand and shot out two rays of faint blue light, hitting Lin Ziyi and the female ghost. Then she dived into the underground sewer at an extremely fast speed.

The formation was broken, and she had to return to the underground world as soon as possible to have a chance of survival. However, Jin Renfeng realized that Li Nuoyan might try to escape back to the underground world, so he would not give up. A sword light rushed from a distance, and after Li Nuoyan dived into the underground waterway, the sword light also slashed into the water.

Instantly, huge waves were stirred up on the water surface. Li Nuoyan was so frightened that she thought she could not escape, but the sword energy passed by her and deviated from the target.

Just when she breathed a sigh of relief, she discovered that the sword energy was piercing straight into the depths of the underground sewer - the source of her life, the Yellow Spring Pool!

It was too late, she could only watch the Yellow Spring Pool and the formation being completely destroyed by the sword energy. At this moment, escaping became her only thought, she had to escape from this place no matter what.

On the shore, Lin Ziyi and the female ghost had never experienced such a horrific scene. After looking at each other, they ran towards the forest without hesitation. They had just become disciples and did not want to die innocently because of their master's enemies.

As soon as they stepped into the forest, a dazzling light and shadow stood out in the darkness. In fact, Jin Renfeng had already spotted the man and the ghost below when he arrived at the scene. But he ignored them, instead stepped on the flying sword, adjusted the direction, and chased them downstream along the underground waterway.

"Brother Yi, what should we do now?" The female ghost looked confused. Although she escaped with the help of Li Nuoyan, she was still confused about her future life.

Lin Ziyi hugged the iron box tightly in his arms, which contained the ghost girl's ashes. At this moment, his expression was unusually calm, and he whispered to her: "Chen Ge and the others are gone, and their families all have certain backgrounds. If we go back now, we will undoubtedly fall into a trap and implicate our families."

"We can't go back to our hometown. As long as we don't show up, the outside world will think we've all died. I originally planned to disguise it as an accident and return alone alive. Even if there are doubts, without solid evidence, they can't do anything to me..."

"But now, after seeing the other side of this world, I have to reconsider my plan." Lin Ziyi's eyes flashed with a fiery light, "It turns out that immortal cultivation really exists. And we can perhaps be regarded as evil practitioners. After all, the cultivation method taught by our master doesn't look like the righteous method at all."

However, Lin Ziyi was still grateful to Li Nuoyan in his heart. It was she who taught them the way of cultivation. Even if it was an evil way, as long as they could live forever, what did it matter whether it was good or evil? As long as they were strong enough, all the difficulties they were facing now would be solved.

The remains of Chen Ge and his men had been reduced to ashes in that thunderbolt attack. Lin Ziyi speculated that there must be practitioners among the officials, and if this incident involved a fight between practitioners, then this case would most likely be suppressed.

Unfortunately, they were involved in a conflict among practitioners... As long as he cleaned up all traces at the scene, all the troubles would disappear.

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Rumbling--

In the underground waterway of the bustling city, Jin Renfeng stood on the flying sword and casually launched thunder attacks. In the water, Li Nuoyan was in great pain. If she was not a ghost cultivator, if she was an ordinary cultivator, she would have suffocated to death after staying underwater for so long.

Despite this, she still couldn't get rid of Jin Renfeng's pursuit, let alone fight back. The Yellow Spring Pool had been destroyed, and Li Nuoyan felt that she had encountered the biggest crisis in her life. If she couldn't find a solution, I'm afraid this day next year would be her death anniversary.

She shuttled quickly underwater, like a nimble fish, desperately escaping downstream. As time passed, Li Nuoyan began to realize that with the opponent's strength, it didn't make sense that he hadn't been able to capture her for so long. Moreover, the opponent's attack frequency had obviously slowed down.

Is the other party not good at water battles? Or... Although she was reluctant to admit it, Li Nuoyan knew that she had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation. However, what exactly did this cultivator want? Did he really want to kill him?

Li Nuoyan was puzzled at the moment, and dodged another attack in a panic. Gradually, she realized that the opponent was obviously sure that she could not escape, so he was not in a hurry to attack...