The object in question was the Ghost Yarn Cloud that Bao Guang, a young Taoist, had loaned to Yu Ci on the eve of his departure from Still Heart Temple. Despite being classified as an Artisan Tool, it was an incredibly useful item, even surpassing some Magical Instruments in practicality to a certain extent.
Yu Ci chanted a mystical incantation and cast the Ghost Yarn Cloud into the mist around him. In this moisture-rich space, the Ghost Yarn Cloud expanded rapidly, reaching a size of five feet in diameter in the blink of an eye. Yu Ci hoisted Monk Zheng Yan onto it, his blood quickly staining a section of the "cloud" red.
"I hope Bao Guang won't be angry," Yu Ci said, shaking his head with a smile. He then hopped onto the cloud himself and began to maneuver it, keeping a distance of about thirty feet from the cliff wall and slowly ascending.
Although the Ghost Yarn Cloud accelerated slowly, once it reached its maximum speed, it could maintain a velocity of three hundred miles per hour for an entire hour, matching the full-speed sprint of a Nature-Connecting Cultivator. With this tool, traversing the next twenty miles seemed like an easy task, but Yu Ci was even more cautious than before.
As the speed gradually increased, Yu Ci kept his eyes fixed on the Divine Map, constantly adjusting his course to ensure there were no aggressive large Birds of Prey on the path of the Ghost Yarn Cloud.
At this moment, the intense, piercing, wave-like shocks in the cold current had become less frequent, but the surging power beneath was even stronger, causing the speed of the cold current to increase rapidly.
The faster the cold current advanced, the more agitated the emotions of the various living beings above became. The usually indifferent territorial consciousness was now highlighted. This was not only true on the cliff wall, but also in the cloudy and misty void.
In some particularly severe areas, countless large and small Birds of Prey, fierce beasts, and Demons capable of flight were densely packed in the mist, wildly dancing and fighting in the void, shedding blood and flesh, their shrill cries echoing through the heavens.
Yu Ci did his best to avoid such battlefields and find relatively safe passages, but the density of living beings here was too high. The Birds of Prey and fierce beasts were highly sensitive to the scent of blood, and Monk Zheng Yan, who was with him, was extremely attractive to them. Even with the help of the Divine Map, there were still occasional Birds of Prey that followed the scent of blood to attack.
In such a situation, Yu Ci did not hold back at all. He activated his Sword Energy and instantly killed a pursuing Blood Eagle and two Snake-necked Falcons. He intentionally squeezed their Qi and Blood, creating a cloud of blood mist that exploded backward, distracting the other living beings.
After three rounds, Yu Ci had depleted half of his "Primordial Qi", but the results were astonishing. Three batches of ten Birds of Prey and a flying Demon were all slain instantly by him before they could even complete their attack.
Of course, if the enemy had managed to complete their attack, the two on the Ghost Yarn Cloud would be the unfortunate ones.
In the void, it was absolutely unwise to compete in agility and adaptability with these airborne predators. The cumbersome Ghost Yarn Cloud was never created for such a purpose.
Yu Ci had been reluctant to use the Ghost Yarn Cloud, not only for fear of damaging this borrowed treasure, but more importantly, he recognized the inherent danger. Thus, even though he had quickly exhausted half of his energy, he did everything he could to avoid such a situation.
When the speed of the Ghost Yarn Cloud increased to about sixty percent, Yu Ci had roughly outlined a path to the top of the Sky Rift Valley on the Divine Map.
However, this path required skimming past the edge of a vast "Golden Elixir Haze" several miles away.
Yu Ci carefully controlled the speed of the Ghost Yarn Cloud, tracing a diagonal line through the mist. The "Golden Elixir Haze" was not stationary, and the Ghost Yarn Cloud was rather sluggish, so he had to leave enough reaction time. At this distance, he could already vaguely see the situation over there with his naked eye, using the Divine Map as a reference. Conversely, Yu Ci also had to be cautious to avoid being detected by the enemy.
However, Yu Ci had noticed early on that there seemed to be a fire burning over there.
Yu Ci had also seen this fire not long ago, but at that time it was quite far away, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But now that he was closer, he realized that the fire was not just moving, but seemed to be in the midst of a fierce battle.
Squinting his eyes to look into it, why did he feel that this fire looked so familiar?
His confusion was quickly resolved. When the rolling heat crossed the two-mile space and blew onto him, Yu Ci clearly felt the faint remnants of Curse Power and a fiery breath that matched his memory. He couldn't help but be surprised:
"That old fellow, he's still alive?"
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Just at this moment, a strong wind blew, stirring up the fire and thinning the mist, allowing Yu Ci to see the situation over there more clearly.
The first thing he saw was the Sun Soul Banner.
The battlefield was still mainly around the cliff wall, but the long flag representing the old demon Tu Du was fluttering deep in the mist.
In fact, Tu Du's condition was terrible, which could be seen from the Sun Soul Banner. The pole, which was a few feet long, had been cut off by two feet at the bottom, and the pitch-black flag had numerous slashes, two of which had even reached the edge of the banner, tearing it into two long strips, making it look rather ridiculous.
However, it was on this tattered Long Flag that the Grand Sun Golden Patterns stood out conspicuously. With a gentle flutter, the golden light spread out from it as if it were substantial. At the same time, a darker ripple was hidden behind the golden light. One bright and one dark, they were born with endless changes. With each swing of the light, a layer of the Cliff wall within a mile radius would be shaved off, with stone dust falling down in a rustle. Particularly, its flying speed was astonishing. Each displacement was more than a hundred feet, and the rippling golden light almost formed a spreading tide, pushing and surging, spreading in all directions.
Within the golden light was the extreme solar firepower. Wherever it went, mountains, stones, grass, and trees were scorched and withered, its momentum was grand.
And within the Sun Soul Banner's Golden fiery circle, there was always a rather small shadow following. At first glance, it looked like the one-eyed Demons possessed by the "Divine Soul of Zheng De", but on its head, there was a thick green hair, fluttering in the wind, like hundreds of poisonous snakes, very eye-catching.
This Demons had no flying ability, but it could move freely within the Golden fiery circle by borrowing force on the Cliff wall and using the method of Vacuum Walking in the air for a short time. The Curse technique radiated by Tu Du seemed to be useless to it, and every time it pounced, its slender claws would swing in the air. The fierce qi was concentrated and did not disperse, leaving a clear track in the fog, like weaving a large net in the fog, intending to limit the drift range of the Sun Soul Banner.
Occasionally, when the qi collided with the Long flag, a booming sound would be made. That was the power of the Long flag's Curse technique being released. When it resisted in the air, the sound of the qi explosion overflowed.
The Ghost Yarn Cloud was still in high-speed flight. Yu Ci was still staring straight ahead, but he was about to turn his head and look again.
The toughness of Tu Du surprised him. This man could live over three hundred and fifty years, indeed he had something beyond ordinary people.
However, the sudden cold wave in the valley should have helped Tu Du a lot. The cold wave made the Demons too busy to take care of themselves, and they could no longer form a siege. On the contrary, Tu Du's Sun Soul Banner had Pure Yang Energy to protect the Yin Spirit, and the impact was smaller, which allowed him to break through.
Now, there should be only two tails trailing behind. Judging from the range of the "Golden Elixir Haze", one is in battle with him, and there should be another one in the mist. If he can get rid of these two Demons, Tu Du's escape can be expected.
Yu Ci really wanted to trip Tu Du again, but reason denied this idea. When the Golden Elixir expert was at full firepower, there was really no room for a Nature-Connecting Cultivator to intervene.
The position of the Ghost Yarn Cloud had already surpassed the battlefield and began to shift to the other side, quickly pulling away.
Yu Ci stared deeply in that direction. He didn't know how Tu Du felt, but he always had a beginning and an end in his work. Since the Sky Rift Valley didn't come to an end, he wouldn't let go afterwards!
At that very moment, he saw the sudden change in the golden glow emanating from the Sun Soul Banner.
Tu Du brought out the mysterious and ever-changing nature of the Curse technique to its fullest. The previous wave of golden light was still spreading when the Curse technique changed. The subsequent golden light, from spreading tides, transformed into a highly concentrated sword in an instant! The sword's aim was not the green-haired Demons that had been restraining him, but it was poured headlong into the deeper parts of the cloud and mist.
The clouds and mist split open, at first, the Sword Energy was still clad in a golden shell, but in the blink of an eye, it had shed its form, leaving only a wave of cold, dark Curse Power, condensed into sharp Sword Energy, Nine Consecutive Strikes!
In the mist, a sudden sharp cry of fury rose.
Due to the great distance, Yu Ci could only vaguely see a massive shadow with wings growing from its ribs trembling continuously in the thinning mist before plunging downwards.
This was clearly a premeditated strike.
After the successful strike, Tu Du didn't care about anything else. He retracted the Long flag and flew towards the deeper parts of the cloud and mist, away from the Cliff wall. He was confident that among the surrounding Demons, only one possessed the ability to fly. After a successful strike, he demonstrated the greatest advantage of Yin Spirit Manipulation, flying away and disappearing without a trace.
Even Yu Ci, despite his different stance, had to sigh at this: the old fellow was indeed cunning.
Before his thoughts could finish, the rolling clouds and mist burst open with a roar. The Two-winged demon, previously knocked down by the Curse technique Sword Energy, burst out with a howl, chasing after the direction of the Sun Soul Banner with its wings spread wide. Its speed was even faster than the Long flag by a third, and it didn't seem to be severely wounded at all.
But all these had nothing to do with Yu Ci for now.
A quarter of an hour later, he arrived at the top of the valley on the Ghost Yarn Cloud.
"It's over!"
The Ghost Yarn Cloud was quietly hovering as Yu Ci jumped down from it, letting out a long sigh.
From the moment he tricked Tu Du into the valley, he had spent a full day and night in the Sky Rift Valley. From the moment he flew west on the cloud to the beginning of his herb gathering in the Sky Rift Valley, it had only been about a month. However, these dozens of days and nights were long and arduous, draining him of all his energy bit by bit.
Even with his typically strong character, he wanted to find a quiet place to sleep deeply at this moment.
He understood that his sigh was because he had finally made up his mind to leave the Sky Rift Valley. Not any other time, but now!
Of course, before that, he had to get rid of the burdens around him first.
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Brother Fish Bone is leaving the Sky Rift Valley. I hope you all are satisfied with this part of the story. Also, for those who are new to this book, hurry up and add it to your collection. "Inquiry the Mirror" will not disappoint you all!
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