The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 178 Reunion

In the main hall maze, Pan Chengfeng smashed the head of the last puppet and said speechlessly: "Master Wu, I don't think we can get out in three days. Let's go back and meet up with everyone and see what happens." Master Wu nodded and said, "This is the only way. The puppets here seem endless. In the past few days, fellow Taoists have destroyed at least three or four hundred puppets, but the number of these puppets that appear each time has increased instead of decreased. Go back and ask everyone if this is the case." Today is the third day they have entered the maze. Since leaving the small room last time, Pan Chengfeng has not rested. He has killed and destroyed countless puppets along the way. But these puppets seem endless. A group will appear after a while. The puppet that Pan Chengfeng destroyed just now was the last puppet of the third wave today.

After the two reached a consensus, they began to walk back. They returned along the same route and encountered puppets again. Although they posed no threat to Pan Chengfeng, he would be exhausted sooner or later if he was always in a state of combat. After finally returning to the small room, Pan Chengfeng could finally take a breath. Just when he reached the statue in the main hall, Heiwu suddenly jumped out, stood on Pan Chengfeng's shoulder, and meowed, meaning, I came out for some fresh air. Pan Chengfeng was surprised and happy. He gave Heiwu a lot of beast meat. Heiwu could actually enter and exit the spirit beast bag freely. The beast meat given to it could be taken out for emergency. Master Wu glanced at Heiwu and said nothing. After all, he had seen the spirit beast bag hanging around Pan Chengfeng's waist a long time ago.

After sitting cross-legged, Pan Chengfeng suddenly asked: "Master Wu, did you notice? On the way back, we didn't see the remains of the puppets we destroyed before. What's going on? Is there a sweeping puppet here?" Master Wu also said with a serious face: "When we just walked back, we could still see the remains left yesterday, but the remains of the puppets destroyed by Taoist friends the day before yesterday were all gone." Pan Chengfeng asked: "Master Wu, do you know what's going on?" Master Wu said: "I just guessed that there should be a formation or mechanism to repair the puppets. That's why we think that the puppets can't be killed, they should be repaired. Otherwise, even if the combined great power has a long lifespan, he won't have so much leisure to create so many puppets."

Pan Chengfeng nodded and said, "If there really is such a formation, the puppets can be repaired in two days. This means that there is no way to kill all the puppets, so we must find an exit as soon as possible, otherwise they will be exhausted sooner or later." Master Wu said, "It can't be said that they can't be killed. As long as it is a formation, it needs energy to start. As long as the formation is out of energy, the formation will not work." Pan Chengfeng asked, "Then how do we know if the energy of the formation has been used up?" Master Wu said, "Now it is repaired every two days. If the repair time is getting longer and longer, it means that the energy of the formation is beginning to be insufficient."

Pan Chengfeng nodded and began to recover his strength. Although Master Wu did not take action, it seemed that he was exhausted just by moving under this gravity, so he also began to rest. Heiwu was running around on the statue. The formation had been activated, so the two did not care about Heiwu.

In the other groups, Chu Xuanji was also walking back in a mess. His originally beautiful white gown was now completely black and had a lot of damage. This gown was also considered a spiritual weapon. It was damaged like this. It was conceivable that Chu Xuanji must have experienced a fierce battle. Fortunately, he finally returned to the small room. Chu Xuanji found a place and lay down casually. He didn't want to move at all. He was really too tired.

Tang Tong ran all the way, no longer strolling leisurely. No one knew where the big sleeves of his Confucian robes had gone, and no one knew whether the white fan he always held in his hand was lost or broken. A group of puppets chased Tang Tong all the way to the small room. Tang Tong saw that the room was just ahead, and finally showed his first smile in the past two days. This expression often hung on his face, but he had suffered a lot in the past two days, so how could he smile? Finally, Tang Tong rushed into the room, and like Chu Xuanji, he found a place to lie down, and didn't want to move anymore.

Chu Hao and Wu Xunjie were fighting with a group of puppets. There seemed to be about 70 or 80 puppets, but after a few days of fighting, they also roughly understood the number of puppets that appeared each time. There were more than 100, but in fact only about 20 were real, and the rest were illusions. However, they had no means of distinguishing, so they could only attack one by one, which made them very tired. Wu Xunjie panted and said, "No, let's go back to that room quickly, otherwise we will be exhausted to death!" Chu Hao also knew that if they didn't go back, if they encountered another group of puppets, they would have to die here. He shouted, destroyed a puppet, and said, "Okay! The same rules! Let's go!" The two of them, one behind and the other leading the way, slowly broke away from the group of puppets and retreated to the direction of the small room.

Chu Xuanji dragged his tired body and walked out of the entrance slowly in a mess. As soon as he came in, he smelled the aroma of meat and swallowed his saliva subconsciously. He has been fasting for hundreds of years, and this food can actually arouse his appetite. You can imagine how tempting this aroma is. Chu Xuanji looked up and saw that under the statue in the main hall, Pan Chengfeng had lit a fire and set up a grill to grill meat. A black kitten and Master Wu were eating happily beside him. Pan Chengfeng saw Chu Xuanji coming back and said happily: "Brother is back? You have worked hard. Come and eat some meat to replenish your energy." Chu Xuanji staggered to Pan Chengfeng and said: "Brother, is this roasted monster meat? It smells so good~" Pan Chengfeng said: "Well, I don't know what monster it is, but it has the cultivation level of the fourth level of body refining. The meat is really delicious, better than the dragon turtle meat I ate before."

After that, he handed a two-pound piece of meat to Chu Xuanji, who didn't hesitate to start eating. As soon as the meat entered his mouth, a stream of energy flowed directly to his limbs. Chu Xuanji took a deep breath and slowly let it out. Then he finished the meat in his hand in a few bites, and reached out to choose a big piece from the grill. This piece was at least ten pounds. He continued to eat the meat with both hands. Heiwu meowed, and Pan Chengfeng hit Heiwu's head with a bang, saying, "Eat yours! I put it there for you, and I'll give it back to you when I get out." Heiwu meant that all the meat belonged to him, and the big piece was roasted by him for himself.

Seeing Chu Xuanji eating so deliciously, Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "Brother, you have been fasting for many years, right?" Chu Xuanji swallowed the last bite of meat, touched his belly and said, "Six or seven hundred years, I won't fast if I can eat this meat every day." Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "That's easy, as long as brother and I go around the Red Mountains for a few times, I promise to prepare enough beast meat for you to eat for ten years." Chu Xuanji smiled and said, "Only you body cultivators have this ability. I dare not go there. Although the Red Mountains are large, there are many monsters and strong people. If you are not careful, you will be discovered. If you are discovered, you will die."

Pan Chengfeng's eyes rolled and he said, "That's true. It's really dangerous for cultivators there. How about this, I have released dozens of monsters in the Zhong family, all of which are my food. This time when I go out, brother, come with me to the Zhong family, and I will get you a few, enough for you to eat for a few years." Chu Xuan Ji was delighted and said happily, "Then it's a deal. It's not easy to take advantage of you once." Master Wu said, "Give me one too, the price is negotiable~" Pan Chengfeng agreed readily.

The three people and the cat were still eating meat, and Tang Tong came back with injuries all over his body. Like Chu Xuanji, he stared at the meat on the grill as soon as he arrived. Without being asked, he sat down and picked up the meat and started chopping it into large pieces. Heiwu meowed again, and that piece was also the largest piece it grilled for him. Chu Xuanji saw that Tang Tong was even worse off than himself, and asked with concern: "Brother Tang, did you escape death?" Tang Tong did not answer and continued to eat meat. Chu Xuanji was not in a hurry, picked up a piece of meat and chewed it slowly. Tang Tong ate more than ten pounds of meat and finally stopped. He touched his stomach and said: "The meat of monsters is really a good thing. It can not only replenish physical strength, but also strengthen the body. I have been fasting for hundreds of years. I can't help smelling this smell. I am a little full~" Chu Xuanji smiled and said: "Brother Tang's eating style just now is not like that of a scholar~" Tang Tong said indifferently: "I don't know how long it has been. Since I achieved the state of incarnation, I haven't experienced this feeling between life and death. How can I care about my dignity now?"

Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "It's good to be back. Wandering between life and death is also a kind of experience. It's good for cultivation." The two looked at Pan Chengfeng in surprise. Chu Xuanji said, "Brother, you are not very old, but you can often say such things. It makes people feel that you have experienced a lot." Pan Chengfeng hurriedly said, "I often fight monsters, so I have no less experience than you."

The two nodded after hearing Pan Chengfeng's explanation. Tang Tong said, "Indeed, Brother Chengfeng is training in the Red Mountains, right?" Pan Chengfeng said, "Is there any better place for a body cultivator to train than the Red Mountains?" Chu Xuanji laughed, "Yes, with your appetite, a monster beast is not enough for you to eat for two meals. No wonder you have such strange strength~ Hahaha!" Tang Tong also laughed, "If body cultivators were not so rare, monster beasts would not be enough for you to eat. Brother Chengfeng, I have always been curious about what your cultivation level is. I am asking about your body cultivation level." Pan Chengfeng said indifferently, "I am only at the third level of body cultivation." Chu Xuanji laughed, "Forget it if you don't want to say it. Why bother fooling us. Although body cultivators are rare, it's not like we haven't seen them before."

Pan Chengfeng was a little surprised and asked, "Brother, have you seen other body cultivators?" Chu Xuanji said, "That was hundreds of years ago, when body cultivators were not so rare. You can still see a few occasionally, after all, there were still some body cultivators more than a thousand years ago. But in the past one or two hundred years, they are increasingly rare, as if many inheritances have been cut off." Tang Tongdao: "Since the Tiandao Sect was changed to the Tiandao Sect, fewer and fewer people have practiced body cultivation. In addition, body cultivators only live for one or two hundred years, so they must be becoming fewer and fewer." Pan Chengfeng asked, "What is the difference between the body cultivators that my brother has seen and my younger brother?"

Chu Xuan Ji thought for a moment and said, "If you are really only at the third level of body refinement, then I can only say that he is no match for you. About 500 years ago, I was still a Nascent Soul cultivator. By chance, I met a body refiner and had a conflict with him." Tang Tongdao: "Are you talking about the same person as I am?" Chu Xuan Ji said, "That should be it. At that time, there were not many body refiners in Qin State, and we met at an auction. For the sake of a spiritual medicine, we bid against each other, and in the end I got the spiritual medicine. After all, body refiners are not rich." After saying that, he glanced at Pan Chengfeng.

Pan Chengfeng asked, "What happened in the end?" Chu Xuanji smiled and said, "He was waiting for me at the exit of the auction house and said he wanted to compete with me for the ownership of the spiritual medicine. I was young and hot-tempered back then, so I agreed without thinking too much. We made an appointment to compete at a place outside the city. He frankly admitted that he was a physical cultivator at the peak of the third level of physical cultivation. That was the first time I saw a physical cultivator, and also the first time I fought with a physical cultivator. In the end, we tied, and he said that the medicine was for saving people, so I gave it to him."

Pan Chengfeng was surprised and said, "A person at the peak of the third level of physical training only managed to tie with you at that time? You really lost face for physical training!" Tang Tongdao said, "According to the realm classification, the third level of physical training, the flesh training realm, corresponds to the Golden Core cultivator. To be able to tie with the Nascent Soul cultivator, I think Brother Chu gave up his advantage and fought him on the ground, right?" Chu Xuanji said, "Yes, I thought he was quite honest and didn't want to take advantage of him, so I fought him on the ground for half an hour. In the end, he was exhausted and my magic power was also empty, so it was a draw."

Pan Chengfeng touched his chin and thought to himself, "Is it Chu Xuanji who lied, or is it that body cultivator who lied? Or am I special?" Seeing Pan Chengfeng touching his chin and thinking, Chu Xuanji and Tang Tong did not interrupt him and continued to eat meat, although they were a little full. But if you can eat more, eat more, it is good for your body. Several people rested separately. After two hours, Chu Hao and Wu Xunjie also came back, but they looked so scared that everyone was shocked.