Hide in The Immortal Cultivation World, Strike Hard in the Martial World
Chapter 387 - 189: Bandit Cultivators_2

Expecting the Law Enforcement Team? Heh.

After the sneak attack failed, the dog-like beast was commanded by the old man to attack Ma Xiaoqiu with full force,

With Chen Yi eyed by a middle-aged man, as he approached, prepared to take down Chen Yi.

Ma Xiaoqiu was entangled by the dog-beast, and the old man incessantly casting spells. Additionally, she was affected by a poisoned powder that hindered her divine sense, she had no time to worry about Chen Yi and could only warn him:

"Daoist Chen, be careful, I'll deal with this old fart, then come to your aid."

Having said that, Ma Xiaoqiu released a second-tier peak puppet and started attacking the beast and the old man.

Meanwhile, Chen Yi saw that Ma Xiaoqiu had already engaged in combat. The cultivator from the opposite side had also rushed forward,

Without any hesitation, he stepped back into the Array Method,

With a ding,

A icy blue energy shield erected, securing Chen Yi within its protective barrier.

This action made the young cultivator stunned:

"Chen Yi, you cowardly turtle! You're hiding within the Array Method while a female cultivator's taking your front!"

Ma Xiaoqiu also paused. They had agreed to fight together, why did he go in first?

"Daoist Ma, do not worry, just focus on your attack. I will block their offense."

Chen Yi responded, maneuvering two puppets to stand firmly in front of Ma Xiaoqiu.

Bang! Boom! Dong!

The combined attack of Old Man Chen, the young cultivator, and the beast was directed at Chen Yi's two puppets,

But was casually blocked by them,

Even the different colored shields on the two puppets started to shine bright.

"You even applied defensive talismans on your puppets?"

This was Chen Yi's sole invention, a middle-grade second-tier Protection Talisman, which could be embedded within the puppet's body in advance,

Then it would activate automatically to defend when attacked.

It had the same effects as the Defensive Bone Talisman previously gifted to Song Chengcheng's younger disciple, Lele,

Now, applied on puppets by Chen Yi, it tremendously increased the defense of the innately second-tier defensive puppets,

Making the inflicted attacks feel like scratches.

Seeing this, Ma Xiaoqiu's eyes sparkled. She hadn't expected that the second-tier middle-rank defensive puppets that she sold to Chen Yi would get such a huge boost in defense.

"Daoist Chen, well-done!"

As she stood protected behind the two massive puppets, she was filled with a sense of safety,

This enabled her to go full force, unleashing another second-tier peak wolf-shaped puppet,

As soon as the wolf-shaped puppet appeared, it drew a full bow. An energy arrow swiftly condensed,

The flux of mana within that arrow startled even Chen Yi who was on the brink of achieving the perfection of Foundation Establishment,

Even more so for the two bandit cultivators across his side, their faces drastically changed.

"Shoot!"

With a stern command from Ma Xiaoqiu,

The energy arrow was released, aiming straight for the dog-beast.

The dog-beast screamed miserably,

Unable to escape, it was impaled from the top by the energy arrow which exited from its belly spraying blood everywhere, it died.

"Little Wolf!!"

The old man yelled furiously,

"Damn you! You dare to kill my Spirit Beast!"

In furious anger, the old man's eyes filled with ferocity as he unleashed a Flame Hammer,

With a roar, he directly smashed it towards Ma Xiaoqiu.

Boom! Boom!

The hammer contained a rampant fire spiritual power. With every strike, the shield around Chen Yi's turtle puppet could be shattered,

In the old man's divine sense, it only took two blows to destroy a puppet. To reach Ma Xiaoqiu standing behind the puppet, it would take just four blows.

However, he could never have guessed how many shield talismans Chen Yi had hidden inside the turtle puppet.

One could only see that with each blow, the light shield around the puppet shattered and dispersed into air,

However, when the hammer was lifted and smashed down again, astonishingly another layer of protection lit up on the turtle puppet..

This was repeated four to five times, until after a light blue protection layer lit up on the turtle puppet,

The hammer failed to break the water attribute shield on its next plunge.

On one hand, it was because the water shield effectively countered the spiritual power attack of the Flame Hammer,

On the other hand, the hammer, being almost a magical instrument, had already shattered four defense shields that were equivalent to the top-tier second-rank. The consumption for the old man was quite large,

Moreover, Chen Yi sensed, with his divine sense, that the old man's usage of this hammer was unsmooth, making it appear as if it was not completely refined - a characteristic of an unrefined magical instrument.

Chen Yi speculated that the giant hammer might not be a personal magic weapon of the old man.

Moreover, after the prior ransacking of the Lin Family Island, the old man was already injured,

After the fifth hammer strike, it was clear that the old man was straining to wield the giant hammer.

Over on one side, Ma Xiaoqiu, after another round of shock, came to trust Chen Yi's defensive measures even more.

Her wolf bow had already reassembled the second mana light arrow, fully drawn and ready to release,

Its target was the tall young man in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment who was offering supplementary attacks.

Seeing this, the young man's expression changed, and without uttering another word, he slapped an escape talisman on himself and turned to make a quick getaway,

The second-tier middle stage dog beast had been killed by a single arrow shot, and he, being merely a body cultivator in the middle stage of foundation establishment, had not much difference in body strength compared to that dog beast, so he dared not face it head-on.

Just as the young cultivator turned into a fleeing shadow, zigzagging in the air and constantly changing his direction to escape the lock-on of that light arrow,

A purple light shadow, stealthy and silent, flashed past, swiftly following up the young man.

Swish, swish, swish!

The Purple Sand Mink was incredibly swift; a few flickerings in the air and it was able to catch up with the young man and strike out with a claw.

The young man was initially startled,

Then, upon realizing he had been scratched by the Purple Mink, leaving only a shallow scratch mark, he laughed dismissively:

"Pfft, just a little Demon Beast that is barely at the second tier, doesn't hurt me at all!"

However, before his voice even fell, he suddenly felt his circulation of spiritual power becoming much slower.

The young man looked at the slight wound on his arm again; the original bright red blood stain had turned purplish black,

And that purplish black color was slowly spreading to other locations.

There is poison on its claws!

The young man's face turned extremely unpleasant all of a sudden.

While this poison was not deadly, it greatly slowed down his speed of progress.

In the instant of his pause in mid-air,

Whoosh!

A light arrow shot towards him.

"No!!!"

The young man's face showed shock, as he helplessly watched the light arrow penetrate through his heart, exiting from behind him.

The expression of pain was frozen on his face,

In the next moment, his upper body turned into a blood mist and violently scattered into the air.

"Third brother!!"

Old Man Chen's eyes were filled with fury.

They have come to capture the physician in Little Cold Peak, but he hadn't expected the spirit beast and his third brother to fall here.

"Chen Yi! I will die with you!!!"

The old man roared wildly, his face distorted as he took out a black thunderball and seemed ready to detonate it.

"Oh no, Kui Sha Yin Thunder! Quickly, Daoist Chen, open the Array Method, let me in!"

Ma Xiaoqiu's face was panic-stricken, and she urgently asked Chen Yi to let her in.

However, the Array Method did open, but it was Chen Yi who swiftly darted out, and gave chase.

"Daoist Chen, what are you doing!" Ma Xiaoqiu was panicked. But when she looked back,

She saw the old man just holding the thunderball with a furious expression on his face, then he turned into a red bloody shadow and bolted into the distance.

"Has he... run away?"

Whoosh!

And Chen Yi had already mounted an eagle-shaped puppet, and gave chase.

"Hmph, you came to my Little Cold Peak for trouble with injuries, and you think you can get away?"

Chen Yi had long seen through the old man's bluff, his courage on the outside but cowardice within.

Moreover, the moment that the old man brought out the Yin thunder, Chen Yi, with narrowed eyes, observed the spiritual light above the old man's head.

He found there was no sign of any injury, and it even appeared to be very weak.

Through the spiritual light, Chen Yi seemed to know that the old man was planning to flee. He immediately exited the mountain protection formation, released the eagle-shaped puppet, and gave chase.

The old man used the Blood Escaping technique to make an eerie path towards the complex terrain of a distant islet,

But no matter how fast he moved or how well he hid, he couldn't evade Chen Yi's sense of spiritual light.

Moreover, just as the old man gave himself some distance and thought he could escape Chen Yi's lock-on,

Chen Yi took out a blood-red pill, the Exploding Sun Pill, and swallowed it.

In the next moment, Chen Yi's body's mana surged by over sixty percent!

The might of mana was pressuring like that of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

And with him mounted on the eagle-shaped puppet, its speed suddenly increased twofold, as if on steroids, almost matching the speed of the old man's blood escape, sticking to him closely and gave chase.