Chapter 104: The Hidden World Family

  "Huh? The two, Long Ziyu and Qing Wu, suddenly stopped in their tracks, except for Peng Kouying. Long Ziyu and Qierci looked at each other with a serious expression, staring at a certain place on the mountain behind them."

  "What a powerful destructive aura!" Long Ziyun exclaimed with a shocked expression.

  "Enzitisi nodded in agreement."

  At this moment, Leng Xiao Yao had fallen from the bed to the ground in the cave. His entire body was constantly trembling, and his skin was torn open with countless fine cracks. Threads of blood seeped out from the cracked skin, and in the blink of an eye, Leng Xiao Yao's entire body was covered in fresh blood.

  "Roar! Roar! Roar!" Leng Xiangyao was like a wounded beast at this moment, letting out low growls.

  Its body's soul power and life force were entangled together, fighting as one, the two forces seemingly not caring about Leng Xianyao's life or death. As they passed through, the meridians in Leng Xianyao's body were torn apart one after another. Just as Leng Xianyao was about to faint, the Hunyuan Pearl that had been quiet in his mind suddenly began to rotate again. In an instant, the two forces fighting together were directly absorbed by the Hunyuan Pearl.

  He lay on the ground, panting heavily, his body aching all over with each deep breath he took.

  The Chaotic Pearl rotated for a moment before suddenly, a new energy burst out from the Chaotic Pearl and entered directly into Leng Xianya's Dantian, quietly coiling within.

  "Huh?" Leng Xiao's heart was surprised for a moment, because he saw that the spiritual energy in his dantian had changed color, and it was no longer its original color. At this moment, the power of the energy was black with a hint of white, could two different energies really merge together?

  "By the way, where's my Ruyi stick?" Cold Xiao suddenly remembered his personal weapon and recalled that he hadn't retrieved it before he fainted.

  As soon as the cold and carefree thought moved, in a forest thousands of miles away from him, a dark iron rod on the ground suddenly emitted a burst of golden light. The ferocious beasts passing by around, or the demonic beasts lurking nearby, all fell to the ground, their bodies trembling.

  "Whoosh!" With a sound, the golden rod on the ground automatically floated up, as if it were a lost child, spinning around in mid-air for a few times before breaking through the air and heading in a certain direction.

  "It's gone." Long Ziyue and Qi Tiesi both looked puzzled, as they felt that the place where the strong destructive aura had just appeared had actually disappeared in a short span of ten breaths. If it weren't for their confidence in their own cultivation, they would have suspected that they had misfelt earlier.

  Just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief and head towards the cave entrance, a golden light suddenly appeared in another location of the Spirit Clan, shooting straight up into the clouds. Fortunately, the Spirit Clan had a defensive barrier, so when the golden light hit it, it was unable to penetrate further.

  "Divine artifact?" Long Ziyuan and Qierci exchanged a surprised glance, both of their eyes revealing a hint of skepticism. Could it be that the Spirit Clan still had a divine artifact hidden within?

  Just as the two were surprised, a golden light flashed towards where they wanted to go. Zither saw this scene and immediately stretched out a withered palm, grabbing at the golden light in mid-air.

  Zite thought this grab was a sure thing, but he didn't expect that the golden light would suddenly make a 90-degree turn in mid-air, avoiding Zite's grab and disappearing into a mountain cave.

  Leng Xiao Yao had just sat up from the ground and hadn't carefully examined his body's condition yet. Suddenly, he felt a flash of golden light in front of him, and a shining golden iron rod appeared before him.

  The Ruyi stick floated in front of him, and a joyful expression appeared on his face, as if he had seen a loved one. He stretched out his hand and grasped the Ruyi stick that was floating in front of him.

  "Ah!" As soon as Leng Xiao Yao grasped the Ruyi Stick, his divine sense detected three uninvited guests outside. Among them, one aura was familiar - it was the little girl who had saved him. However, the other two auras were completely unfamiliar. But Leng Xiao Yao had a feeling that these two people must be extremely powerful; otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to see through their cultivation realm. After all, although Leng Xiao Yao didn't cultivate in this space, his cultivation method was passed down from an ancient great god, and it mainly focused on the soul and **. In terms of divine sense, he could surpass people one or two levels above him. But even with his accurate and sacred cultivation, he couldn't see through the cultivation realm of these three people. This meant that they were at least at the peak of Sword God's cultivation.

  Long'er brought her mother and grandfather to the entrance of the cave, where they saw a blood-stained Leng Xiao Yao sitting on the ground. She quickly ran over to him, stretched out both hands to help him up, and scolded: "What's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you that your injuries haven't healed yet, don't move around randomly, how did you get all bloody again?"

  "Haha!" A faint smile appeared on Leng Xiangyao's face as he responded to Long'er's questioning words, but his attention was focused on the two people who had just appeared at the entrance of the cave. One was a noble and beautiful woman with a golden crown on her head, looking elegant and refined. The other was an old man who looked frail and gaunt, with a face full of wrinkles, as if he could be blown away by a gentle breeze. However, Leng Xiangyao did not think so, because his intuition told him that the most dangerous one was actually the old man.

  Actually, at the moment when Long Er rushed into the cave, Qier Ci was ready to intervene, but before he could stretch out his hand, he was blocked by Long Ziyan.

  Long'er saw Leng Xiao Yao staring at the cave entrance, ignoring his words. A small face showed a hint of anger: "Wooden man, why aren't you answering me?"

  "Ah!" Leng Xiao Yao was pulled back to attention by Long Er's words, and when he saw the angry look on her beautiful face, he felt it was very cute. So he smiled and said: "Sorry, what did you just say? I didn't hear it, can you say it again?"

  "Hmm!" Long'er let out a soft hum, then turned around and ran to Zite's side, coquettishly saying: "Grandpa, look at how the wooden man is bullying me, help me teach him a lesson."

  The latter heard his own words and a bitter smile appeared on his face, silent and speechless, as if waiting for an opportunity.

  Long Ziyuan glared at her daughter with a smile on her face, "Hehe, little brother, how did you enter this misty forest?"

  Leng Xiao Yao gazed at the woman who walked in, a hint of surprise on his face as he called out: "Is this the Misty Forest?" Leng Xiao Yao was not unfamiliar with the Misty Forest. In the Cold Family's library, he had seen a book called "Otherworldly Records" that recorded some famous places on the Maya Continent, and the Misty Forest was one of them. It was said that anyone who entered the Misty Forest would be suppressed by one level, regardless of their cultivation. No one could escape from inside again. Leng Xiao Yao knew that being suppressed by one level was a big deal. In other words, if you had Sword God's cultivation when entering, then inside, your maximum cultivation would be Sword Saint. It was said that the Misty Forest had divine beasts. Sun Wei Kai, the number one swordsman on the Maya Continent's Sword God List, did not believe this and entered the Misty Forest alone. As a result, he never came out again. Since then, the name of the Misty Forest became famous on the Maya Continent, and no one dared to try entering it easily. What a joke! Generally, the higher one's cultivation, the more they cherished their life. Who would be so arrogant as to use their own life as a joke? Moreover, even the number one swordsman could not come out alive, let alone those stray cats and dogs. Who would think that their cultivation was higher than Sun Wei Kai's?

  "No, it's fine," Long Ziyu nodded slightly, her eyes fixed on Leng Xiangyao, as if waiting for an answer. Leng Xiangyao scratched his head, thought for a moment, then looked up with an embarrassed expression and said, "Sorry, I don't even know how I got here myself."

  Zi Tesse heard the perfunctory words of Leng Xiao Yao, and her figure flashed to Leng Xiao Yao's front. With one hand grasping Leng Xiao Yao's neck, she lifted up Leng Xiao Yao's body and coldly said: "You little brat, which faction did you come from? If you don't want to suffer, then obediently speak out."

  "Grandpa, no!" Long'er had just been throwing a tantrum and asking Qierci to help teach Leng Xianyao a lesson, but seeing Leng Xianyao being lifted up by the neck by Qierci still made him cry out.

  Zi Tesse ignored Long Er's cries, her face stern as she gazed at the cold Xuan Yang in her hand, and asked forcefully: "Child, don't say I didn't give you a chance. If you still won't speak, I'll have no choice but to end your life."

  Leng Xiangyao was both enraged and shocked at this moment. He was angry that the old man in front of him would dare to humiliate himself, and he was shocked that the old man had effortlessly grabbed him with one hand, sealing several acupoints on his body with a mysterious power in an instant. Although Leng Xiangyao's cultivation wasn't very high, he was at least at the quasi-Sword Saint level. This meant that the unassuming old man in front of him should be at least at the Sword God level? No, when he had fought against that mid-level Sword God in Kyoto back then, he hadn't been completely useless and had managed to hold on for a few moves. So why was he unable to resist this old man now?

  One can be killed, but not humiliated. This has always been Leng Xue's guiding principle for being a person. Even if he knew how he had arrived at this point, he would never say it out loud. In his past life or this one, what Leng Xue hated the most was being threatened by others.

  Zite Si gazed at Leng Xiao's face, where a flame of anger was burning, and a faint smile of disdain appeared on her own face. She slightly increased the force in her hand, causing Leng Xiao's face to flush with blood.

  He felt his breathing becoming more and more difficult, and his head began to feel dizzy and sleepy. So he tried his best to mobilize the spiritual power within his body, wanting to resist a little, but when he mobilized it for a moment, his heart immediately cooled down, because he found that his dantian seemed to be sealed as well. No matter how hard he tried to mobilize the power of his dantian, he couldn't get it started.

  As Leng Xiangyang was about to fall into a coma, suddenly, a cool intention came from his right hand and reached his brain. He, who was originally drowsy, was shocked, glanced at his left hand with the corner of his eye, saw the Ruyi stick in his hand, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

  "Uh!" Zither saw the faint cold smile at the corner of Leng Xiao's mouth, and suddenly felt a sense of foreboding flash by. But before he could put down Leng Xiao in his hand, a burst of golden light flashed by.

  "Bang!" A loud crash echoed through the cave.

  "Thud, thud, thud", Qite Si took a dozen steps back before stopping, her facial expression changing several times, her throat moving up and down as if suppressing something.

  "Lock!" With a cry, Leng Xiangya fell to the ground, panting heavily, and the Ruyi stick in his hand also fell to the ground.

  Leng Xiao Yao's eyes were fixed on Qier Si, his hand swiftly picked up the Ruyi Stick from the ground, panting while being on guard against Qier Si. When he thought of the situation earlier, a cold sweat broke out on Leng Xiao Yao's back. If it weren't for his own will that could control the size and attack of the Ruyi Stick, if he had been late by just a moment, he would have become the first Sword Saint in history to be strangled to death.

  "Magic artifact?" Zite's mouth spat out two words, his eyes fixed on the iron rod in Lengpursuit's hand that had almost made him capsize.

  Long Ziyuan's eyes lit up slightly as she heard Qierci's words, and a peculiar gaze swept over Leng Xianyao. As the queen of the spirit tribe, she was naturally well-informed about the outside world. Although the spirit tribe had hidden in the misty forest to avoid disaster, they still had many informants on the outside. Every year, news from the Maya continent would be transmitted back through special messengers. She knew a lot about the hidden families of the Maya continent, and there were only ten divine artifacts that had appeared on the continent. These divine artifacts were mostly publicly announced by those hidden families. As for how many divine artifacts actually existed on the Maya continent, no one could know the exact number. So her first instinct was to suspect that Leng Xianyao was a young master from one of the hidden families on the Maya continent. Otherwise, with his cultivation as an Accurate Sword Saint, how would he have qualified to possess a divine artifact?

  "Little guy, which household are you from? Tell me, maybe Auntie still recognizes you." Long Ziyu asked with a gentle smile on her face. She couldn't help it! Don't look at how the Spirit Clan is full of powerful experts, but those hidden households are not easy to deal with, and even several households were survivors of the ancient war. Their strength can be imagined. Long Ziyu didn't want to start a war between households because of a small matter, that would be a big loss.

  "A noble family?" Leng Xiao Yao heard Long Ziyuan's question, his expression stunned for a moment, and he replied, "I'm not from any noble family! May I ask who you are?

  Long Ziyuan heard what Leng Xiao said, and a hint of a smile appeared on her face: "My name is Long Ziyuan, I am the mother of Long Er, also known as the Queen of the Spirit Clan. I believe your elders must have mentioned my name before."

  Long Ziyuan still thought that Leng Xiao was intentionally denying it, because those hidden world families were called hidden worlds, naturally they had to hide their identities, and it was impossible for them to reveal their true identities. So Long Ziyuan always believed that Leng Xiao was denying his identity in order not to expose himself.

  "Long Purple Smoke? Cold Xiao Yao's face was filled with a puzzled expression, and he looked at Long Er on the side, then looked at Long Purple Smoke again. It wasn't until now that Cold Xiao Yao realized that there were indeed some similarities between Long Er and Long Purple Smoke. So they were mother and daughter! No wonder he felt like he had seen Long Purple Smoke somewhere before, it was because of this!"