Chapter 1051: Chapter 715: Skin and Bone Array (Part 2)
The wind blew against his skin, constantly stirring it, making his expression even more twisted.
But strangely, the ferocious man did not continue to pursue, instead turning toward Xifeng.
Xiang Beifei wanted to rely on Yin and Yang energy to continue forward, but these Skin and Bone men blocked the way, their power terrifyingly immense, impossible for him to push through. Xifeng drew their attention ahead, making the path forward as obstructed as constipation, with no way out.
"We can’t keep advancing like this, this way! This way! This way is safe!"
The Diviner once again tossed out a piece of tortoiseshell, transforming into a stream of light, drawing a vague gray line through the dense crowd of Skin and Bone men.
"Follow the line!"
The Diviner urged Xiang Beifei.
Without any hesitation, Xiang Beifei immediately followed the gray line plotted by the Diviner.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Skin and Bone men ignored Xiang Beifei, continuing to surge toward Xifeng, but the gray line drawn by the Diviner worked wonders; as long as Xiang Beifei followed it, the Skin and Bone men brushed past him and the Diviner nearly untouched.
The gray line wasn’t fixed, constantly shifting in the air. The Diviner had no other skills but was excellent at finding a safe escape route, weaving through the crowd, and soon the two had broken free, returning to the original mountain pass.
"Glad we made it out."
The Diviner sighed in relief, trying hard to straighten his disheveled long white eyebrows. For him, clothes could be messy, but his eyebrows couldn’t be.
"Your ability is quite impressive, born for safety," Xiang Beifei remarked.
The Diviner replied awkwardly, "I’m just good at running away, nothing else worth mentioning."
He could divine a safe path through chaos, predicting good and bad fortune.
However, the downside was apparent; following his safe path essentially led back to the starting point.
"Can’t you divine a safe advance route?" Xiang Beifei asked.
The Diviner hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually, I was divining earlier, but... how should I put it? There are nearly no safe advance routes like our smooth retreat just now, but I have divined a strategy."
"What strategy?" Xiang Beifei inquired.
The Diviner hesitated again, glanced at Xifeng who was still besieged, and shook his head, "I can’t say, at least not to him."
Boom!
At that moment, countless sword beams burst out from the gaps between the Skin and Bone men’s figures, the crossing and interweaving Sword Qi temporarily forcing back the dense Skin and Bone men. The light of the Sword Qi revolved in the air, then reassembled into the form of Xifeng beside Xiang Beifei.
Transforming the body into a sword, merging human and sword as one!
This was the highest realm of a Sword Cultivator!
Having cultivated his sword to this degree was rare across the entire Edge Corner Airspace.
Xifeng’s face was gloomy; though he had escaped, he clearly paid a price, his aura extremely chaotic, the Skin and Bone men were too powerful, even he couldn’t completely retreat unscathed.
"You managed to get out?"
Xifeng frowned, staring intently at Xiang Beifei and the Diviner. He was inquiring the Dao realm, but Xiang Beifei and the Diviner were at the late stage of immortality, yet they escaped earlier, which made him suspicious.
Could these two guys also be inquiring the Dao realm?
But recalling, except for himself, neither Xiang Beifei nor the Diviner exhibited any aura of inquiring the Dao realm earlier.
These two guys should both be at the late stage of immortality, no mistake about that.
"I divined a safe escape route; I was just divining how to safely get away," the Diviner quickly explained.
Xifeng wore a gloomy face, but on second thought, the Diviner indeed had some skill.
If the Diviner could deduce a safe retreat route, then he was somewhat useful. At least if they ventured deeper into ruins, they stood a chance against unsolvable dangers.
Thinking thus, he no longer planned to kill the Diviner, nor would he send the Diviner to his death.
As for Xiang Beifei—
Xifeng was indifferent.
They had returned to their starting point and needed to reconsider how to make it past these tens of thousands of Skin and Bone men, a crucial issue.
While pondering, suddenly Xifeng sensed something, frowning slightly, and then shouted in a low voice, "Don’t move, someone’s coming."
Sword Qi rapidly surged from his body, enveloping Xiang Beifei and the Diviner, concealing their aura of life.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A troop of about ten people rapidly emerged from the distant black fog, the leading three exuding powerful auras with no concealment.
Masters in the inquiry Dao realm!
Upon close inspection, Xiang Beifei realized these three were Demon Dao practitioners!
Aside from these three people, the remaining seven seemed to have low cultivation, their faces pale and filled with terror.
"Finally, we are here."
The leader, a red-haired young man, laughed with a sinister elegance.
This man was named Mo Bufan, cultivating Demon Dao power, emanating a sinister aura.
"Are you sure this is the place?" another cold-looking middle-aged man asked.
He was called Mo Gui, and like Mo Bufan, he was from the Demon Race.
"I came here thirty years ago, but it wasn’t easy back then. I was stopped by the Skin and Bone Array here. Without settling these skins and bones, the way cannot be found," Mo Bufan said.
"Are these skins and bones powerful?"
Mo Gui seemed unconvinced, as these skeletal figures emitted no discernible energy.
"Why don’t you try it and see?" Mo Bufan suggested.
Mo Gui pondered, lightly flicking his hand, releasing a green Demonic Qi that transmogrified into a demonic shadow clone, striking one of the skeletal figures!
Clang!
The skeletal figure remained unmoved, unharmed.
However, the other skeletal figures began to stir, focusing on the shadow clone, charging rapidly!
Crash! Crash! Crash!
The mighty demonic shadow clone was torn to shreds by countless skeletal beings!
Mo Gui stood with a severe expression, beginning to comprehend the oddity of the place.
"We can’t break through on our own," Mo Gui stated.
"Indeed. Even those skilled in the Inquiry Dao Realm find it challenging to deal with these skeletal creatures. But I’ve finally figured out how to break through this Skin and Bone Array."
Mo Bufan smiled with a malevolent charm.
He snapped his fingers, the Demonic Qi in his hands merging into a thread, landing on a companion beside him!
This was a purple-faced Yi Tribesman, only at the Heavenly Connection phase of cultivation; typically, even those at the early stages of immortality wouldn’t dare venture here, let alone him.
Clearly, this purple-faced man didn’t come willingly, for his eyes were full of fear and despair, forcibly brought along.
"Please, please, don’t..." The purple-faced man spoke in horror.
Yet Mo Bufan couldn’t bother to care, his green Demonic Qi enveloping the purple-faced man, covering every joint of his body with Demonic Qi, as if a manipulated puppet.
"Do as I say."
Mo Bufan smiled blandly at the purple-faced man.
The purple-faced man shook his head in terror, yet he couldn’t refuse, his soul entangled by purple Demonic Qi.
Compelled, he slit open his finger, purple blood quickly flowing out.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
All the skeletal figures ahead seemed to smell the blood and uniformly turned to face the purple-faced man.
The purple-faced man peed himself in fright!
Earlier, Mo Bufan had mentioned that even those in the Inquiry Dao Realm couldn’t handle these skeletal figures, let alone him.
But he was manipulated, heading toward the nearest skeletal figure.
The skeletal figure before him was a young man’s skin, its face flapping in the wind, looking exceedingly excited, staring fiercely at the purple-faced man, especially his finger.
The purple-faced man trembled as he approached, seeing the young man’s throat, an exterior tear where a black iron skeleton could be seen inside.
Then the purple-faced man’s blood-stained hands grabbed the tear at the young man’s throat, starting to rip it open!
Tear!
The skin that even the Inquiry Dao Realm couldn’t destroy, after being stained with blood, was torn by the purple-faced man.
The skin tore from the throat, spreading upward to the chin, lips, all the way to the forehead.
"Ah..."
The purple-faced man suddenly emitted a heart-wrenching scream.
Everyone paused abruptly!
Because they realized that a tear had appeared at the purple-faced man’s throat too, spreading upward to the chin, lips, all the way to the forehead!
Just as the skeletal figure’s skin tore, so did his own skin.